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Mutt Is Too Impatient To Be a First-Class School Teacher
By “Bud” Fisher
Bv Percy H. Whiting.
M anagers smith and ei-
berfeld will sound the big
mins of the campaign to-day
„ , |,| K guns of the campaign who
w I boom from the slab this after-
are Musser and Summers. .
,„er is the bright hurling star
, ,,, Cracker team. Summers is
-kinny left hander the Elber-
1 have just secured from the
rubs—the same ' Rudy” Summers,
Von 13 and lost 7 for the Nash-
‘ill., team last season.
T hese men go as advertiseo it
tM . a grand battle. However it
there should be excitement, U
, games of yesterday and the day
t'.fur,. an be regarded as indica-
. . *
it i« up to Musser to go some.
1 Ruck Becker is to be turned
, rift right away. And Orlle Mea-
ver has Bill Smith worried bright
bl Weav.T has started three times
lately and three times he has been
knocked out of the box.
Right now he is claiming a sore
,rn There seems nothing the mat-
,7 PNr ,nt a kink somewhere abaft
!i lt , forearm. Rut it is a real kink
. nJ pas Weaver absolutely tied up.
When Orlle warmed up Wednes-
he seemed to have everything
-but it didn't stay with him. How
ever Bill Smith hopes he is irnprov-
,,,, Weaver has been counted on as
the big pitching success of the Crack
er team and if he goes astray it will
bother a good bit.
I'or the present Smith is not go-
,ng to worry. Brady and Price both
want to work twice a week. Musser is
euori for a game a week. Bausewein
.light to he able to stick through his
next game. And Smith will not
tvorrj i d course later if he needs
ft man from the big leagues there
iivv be one forthcoming.
*' * *
THE CRACKERS won again yes-
1 terday, 5 to 4. And they surely
perspired profusely before it was
.iver The game was scheduled for
the try-out of George Bausewein,
the Charlotte wonder. And don’t
hold it against him. He Is a big,
husky chap, inclined to run to fat.
It is hard enough for him to keep
in condition, under the most favor
able circumstances. And lately, be
cause of a sprained ankle, he has
been unable to work at all. He
.listed three innings fine and with the
score 3 to 0 in favor of Atlanta it
appeared that the game was on ice
—where it belonged, for the day was
warm.
In the fourth Coyle beat out a
hit through Dobard, Flick and King
walked and Elberfeld drove in three
runs with a triple into the center
field ditch.
That last hit ended Bausewein's
try-out.
But don't consider that any sure
indication that Bausewein is not go
ing to be one of Atlanta's pitchers.
He needs work and he will get it.
His next out may be highly im
pressive.
* * *
'T’HE score was tied when Price
* went in and it stuck there about
two minutes, after which Elberfeld
scored on Massey’s sacrifice fly.
Then the Crackers started bid
ding for the lead again. They got
; one on in the fifth and then Kid
Troy, wno was hurling for the El-
lerkids, struck out Welchonee and
Bailey, the league batting leaders
"f i912 and considerable hitters this
year, b'gosh. In the sixth Smith
! aced out a triple, with one down.
But Dobard and Dunn couldn't de
liver.
* * *
IN good time came the seventh
1 inning. Price grounded to Elber-
feld and the Kid errored. Agler
sacrificed. And then came Alper-
man.
Be it noted that Alperman had al-
! v ady made three singles in succes
sion out of three times up. It was
& little too much to expect that he
could t single again. But he did. a
clean blow to right field, and Price
romped home with the run that tied
*t up. ‘ Whitey” went to sec-
on the throw to the plate and
S'-ored when Welchonce singled. This
run gave Atlanta the game.
* * *
THIS Alperman is a bad hitter. He
kno< keG • ha ball to all four
1 rners of the lot yesterday and
•rywhere the fielders went for him
'Tossed them. Once, when they
him figured out. he drove such
; ' terrific lick ro Elberfeld that it
spilled the Kid all over the dia-
! mond.
^nd speaking of Elberfeld. you have
hand it to him for trying to play
I ! h" whole diamond. He goes to the
f°r bunts, he goes to the out-
Md.for flies, he goes to third for
1 hard plays and nobody will be
Tprised if he covers home plate or
puris few in a pinch. The Kid
playing nice ball and his hit yes-
■rday nearly put the ball game to
nis credit.
* * *
; pWCE pitched a marvelously good
-ane yesterday after he re-
>v "-i Bausewein. Just one hit was
bi'i*' off his delivery, and that was
Street’s dubious double.
; Pri,
seemed to have a lot of con-
^‘•nce and a lot of curves.
* * *
I 1TH P-al reluctance Bill Smith
has given Lew McAllister his
‘^"liditionai release. The Albany
ht" ", ,nte( l Lew for a manager and
“ Atlanta club could have made
L n 'e money selling him. It is re-
that Chattanooga would
i!. Him jf waivers were asked. But
" al club felt that, as Lew had
' vll en a free agent, he was
] ec * to his release. Two of Lew's
J !! " sick and he is anxious
1 10 »et home.
■ 115 Redith out of races.
■ k..! LADELp HIA, April 25.—Ted
I 1 ‘ star runner of the Uni-
J Pennsylvania, is at odds
l he faculty because he has
I in,'J n some °* Bis examinations
faculty may not permit him
I i n the rtu . es Saturday.
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DEPT.
Atlanta, Ga.
T HE Atlanta Gas Light Company
was admitted into the Saturday
Afternoon Baseball League at h
meeting of the board of directors of
the league held at the College Co-op.
Exposition Mills. Pulton Bag and
Cotton Mills, Whittier Mills. Auto
Top Company, and North Atlanta
Stars are the other five teams con
stituting this league. All of them
were in this circuit last season.
W. E. Bradley, who was vice
president of the league last season.
Is president now J. T. Webb, Jr., is
secretary-treasurer. *
The season 'opens on Saturday with
three games. The league has three
excellent baseball fields, located at
Whittier, Fulton and Exposition
Mills.
A playing schedule for he entir*
season was adopted at the meeting
last night, providing tor fifteen
games for each team.
• The schedule in full:
APRIL 26—Auto Top Company vs.
Atlanta Gas Company at Fulton; Ex
position Mills vs. Fulton Bag at Ex
position; North Atlanta Stars vs.
Whittier Mills at Whittier.
MAY 3—Auto Top Company vp.
Exposition Mills at Exposition. At
lanta Gas Company vs. North Atlanta
Stars at Whittier; Fulton Bag vs.
Whittier at Fulton.
MAY 10—Auto Top Company vs.
North Atlanta Stars at Exposition;
Atlanta Gas* Company vs. Fulton Bag
at Fuftton; Exposition Mills vs. Whit
tier at Whittier.
MAY IT—Auto Top Company vs.
Fulton Bag at Fulton; Exposition
Mills vs. North Atlanta Stars at Ex
position; Atlanta Gas Company vs.
Whittier at Whittier.
MAY 24—Auto Top Company vs.
Whittier at Whittier: Exposition
Mills vs. Atlanta Gas Company at
Exposition; North Atlanta Stars vs.
Fulton Bag at Fulton.
MAY 31—Auto Top Company vs.
Atlanta Gas Company at Exposition;
Exposition Mills vs. Fulton Bag at
Fulton. North Atlanta Stars vs.
Whittier at Whittier.
JUNE T—Auto Top Company vs.
Exposition Mills at Exposition; At
lanta Gas Company vs. North Atlan
ta Stars at Fulton; Fulton Bag vs.
Whittier at Whittier.
JUNE 14 —Auto Top Company v«.
North Atlanta Stars at Whittier:
Atlanta Gas Company vs. Fulton Bag
at Fulton; Exposition Mills vs. Whit
tier at Exposition.
JUNE 21—Auto Top Company vs.
Fulton Baft at Fulton: Exposition
.Mills vs. North Atlanta Stars at Ex
position. Atlanta Gas Company vs
Whittier at Whittier.
jl'XE 28—Auto Top ' ompant ' s.
Whittier at Whittier: Exposition
.Mills vs .Atlanta Gas Company at
Exposition: North Atlanta Stars vs.
Fulton Bag at Fulton.
JULY a—Auto fop Company \s.
Atlanta Gas Company at Fulton: Ex
position Mills vs. Fulton Bag at Ex
position; North Atlanta Stars vs.
Whittier at Whittier.
j[JKY 12—Auto Top company is.
Exposition at Exposition; Atlanta
Gas Company vs. North Atlanta
Stars at Whittier; Fulton Bag vs.
Whittier at Fulton.
ttjlY 19—Auto Top Company vs
North Atlanta Stars at Whittier; At
lanta Gas Company vs. I-niton Bag at
Fulton: Exposition Mills vs. Whit-
tier at Exposition.
JULY 26—Auto Top Company vs.
r,,L Ratr at Fulton; Exposition
Mills vs North Atlanta Stars at Ex
position; Atlanta Gas Company vs.
Whittier at W hittier.
AUGUST 2-Auto Top Company
vs Whittier at Whittier; Exposition
Mills vs. Atlanta Gas Company at
Exposition; North Atlanta Stars vs.
Fulton Bag at Fulton.
VICTOR MUNOZ WOULD
FORM CUBAN BALL LEAGUE
1 (,s ANGELES, CAL., April 25.—
Victor Munoz, the Havana base
ball writer, is behind a movement
to form a Cuban baseball league,
composed of three teams in Havana
and others in Matanzas, ( lenfuegns
and Santiago. He says that the
game has not advanced far enough
vet for the idea to be popular, but
that in a few years’ time he aid
have such a league play on the is
land every winter.
LORDLY) LEAD BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE. MD., April 25. - .lack
Dunn of the Baltimore team, ha.-
deeided to have a field captain after
all and Briscoe Lord will get the
appointment.
Baseball Fans Side With Cobb
Q O O O 0 © ©
Many Clubs Would Pay $15,000
Dropping ail the pei’ifiage that in
fests both sides of the Ty Cobb argu
ment, there are only two practical
questions that concern us outsiders 1 :
1. Is the Gem of Georgia worth
$15,COO a year to the Detroit Baseball
Club?
2. If Cobb is not worth $15,000 a
year to Detroit, is it fair to Cobb or
to the "fans" to prevent him from
playing where he may be worth $15,*
000?
There is a bunch of oth«r questions
hanging upon the above—such as "the
future of organized baseball," the
hazardous returns on baseball invest
ments. the manner in which Cobb and
Navin handled their respective sides
of the argument, etc.—but these ques
tions are of no real practical concern
to the public. You can’t get the "fans"
heated up about any of these side
arguments. The meat of it. to them,
is served up above in two chunks.
What the “Fans" Think of It.
Here i>* a sample: The writer met
a rich old "fan" recently—the old-
fashioned vested interests "bug,” who
is a foe to the organization of em
ployees for any purpose whatever. He
looked like the right kind of a man
to approach for an anti-Cobb argu
ment. This is what he said:
An outrage—an outrage, sir! I
go to the ball game every pleasant
afternoon. I s my recreation. I
pay a good dollar almost every
day to set baseball. There- are
thousands more like me We are
entitled to the best baseball there
is. in return for our money. It
is up to those fellowk (the mag
nates i to give us the best there is.
They can afford it. Why. look at
that crowd! (He pointed to 7,000
"fans.") They paid about $4,000
to see thi^ game. If they gave Ty
Cobh $15,000 a year it would
amount to about $100 a game
If we pay $4,000 to see a ball
game—wnich is a moderate day
at most big parks—$100 a game
is little enough to pay a player
who gives us the run for our
money we get from Cobb. That
is, if they can’t get Cobb for less.
I know some of the baseball sal
aries are mighty good money for
the time s<pent in the game. But
what’s that to me? I only pay
five times as much to see opera as
to see a ball game, and they think
nothing of paying from $1,000 to
$3,000 a performance to an ar
tist who is as great a star in opera
as Cobb is in baseball. No, sir!
We want what we pay for. It’s
a Hhame to keep a fellow like
Cobb from .playing baseball.
Is Baseball Slavery?
On the other hand, a working man
w ho holds just the opposite economic
views was tackled He opined:
Those baseball players are the
worst kind of victims of wage
slavery. They have to toe the
mark for their employers, and
take what the bos-s gives them,
or quit playing altogether. It's
slavery. They’re bought and sold
like so many catle.
I know they get good money for
the time they spend and the
amount of actual work they do.
But it's the principle of the thing
that’s at stake—the right to sell
your labor where and when you
please, and for ,vhat you can get.
It’s the skill with which they
do it that pets them the good
salaries.
Only a few at the top. in base-
bail comparatively, are good
enough to get the good jobs with
the best paying clubs. And they
only last a few years.
Yes, $15,000 a year—or $100 a
game—is a lot of money fur a fel
low who gives up only four hours
a day six months in a year to the
game. Hut w hat of it? How about
the doctor whose skill gets 1 him
$1,000 for an operation that takes
hut fifteen minutes? He didn’t
spend any more time learning
how to perform that operation
than the baseball player did in
learning how to play the game
skillfully enough to become a big
ieague star. And he lasts longer
than the star.
And if it weren’t for fellows like
Cobb you wouldn't see those
jammed grandstands and the
magnates wouldn't be taking for
tunes in at the gates. The player*
are all ther^ is to the game, and
they're entitled to a fair share
of the profits and to work for
whom they please.
The Middl«-of-the-Road “Fan.”
Then there is the half-way-betwecn
"fan”—the fellow who isn't worried
one way or the other about other
people’s business or abstract econo
mic problems. Here’s what one of
them -aid:
What’s it to me? If Cqbb pulls
the money in at the gate they
ought to pay him for it, oughtn't
they? I’m blamed sure nobody
goes to see ball games because
so-and-so happens to own the
team. No. they go to sec rous
ing baseball—the kind that keeps
you excited.
If Detroit can't make enough
off <’obb to afford to pay him
$15,000 a year, and some other
city can. let him go to the other
city. If none of the magnates
can afford to pay such a salary
and make a good profit, then let
'em pay him less, and if he isn’t
satisfied with that, let him go to
—well, w herever he prefers to go.
That’s all I care about it.
Barring influences "higher up." it
is safe to say that there are at least
four clubs, and probably more, that
would be glad of the opportunity to
hire Ty Cobb at $15,000 a year—re
gardless of what the owners of these
clubs might say publicly on tho ques
tion at this time. These clubs are:
Boston Americans.
Chicago Americans.
New York Americans.
New York Nationals.
It is likely that two or three oth
ers would slip in a bid at those fig
ures if Cobb were a "free agent.”
Magnates Want the Cobbs.
A magnate heavily interested in
one of these clubs was asked what
he thought of the Cobb proposition,
and whether he would like to engage
Cobb. Hi* declared, emphatically:
Would I? Well, you give me a
chance and see. Would Cobb
make trouble for me and my
team by his erratic ways and his
influence on the team? I don't
care. I'd take a long chance on
that. But whether Cobb gets
$15,000 a year is a question be
tween him and the Detroit Club,
solely, as it stands.
It is a good guess that any one of
the clubs that could and would take
Cobb at a record salary would be
willing to give Detroit in exchange
enough valuable players to materially
strengthen Jennings’ ball team. But
the Detroit magnates are loth to sell
or trade Cobb for fear of the effect
it would have on the Detroit basebal 1
public.
What the "Fans” Want.
It is a good guess that while most
"fans" appreciate the benefits of
baseball so organized as to assume
good contests, they are willing to let
the magnates wrestle with that fea
ture of it. About the only practical
concern most of them have in the
game is. first, they want the best
baseball that can be produced, play
ed by the best players obtainable,
and. second, they want the magnates
to pay whatever they have to, in or
der to give them that kind of sport.
Concerning Cobb in particular,
most of them seem to be willing to
admit that whethe r Navin can afford
to pay Cobb $15,000 is A question for
Navin to decide, but if he can't, then
Cobb ought to be allowed to play in
some city that ('AN afford to pay
him that sum.
Cobb is certainly n good enough
drawing card to return a big profit
on $15,000 a year In several cities,
his personal eccentricities to the* con
trary notwithstanding. And the-
"fans” want to see all the Cobbs
that can be produced right out there
on the diamond. You can’t bring
'em on fast enough to suit the base
ball "bugs.”
MORRIS STOPS BELMONT.
SI’. LOUIS. April 25. Carl Morris.
Oklahoma heavyweight, knocked out
Kingdon Belmont, of St. Louis, in the
third round of their scheduled eight-
round fight here.
SUNDAY BALL BARRED AT YALE.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.. April 26.—
Any student of the Sheffield Scientific
School at Yale who takes part in a
Sunday baseball game will render
himself liable to suspension. This is
the dictum issued by the acting di
rector of the school.
HOGAN VS. SHUGRUE.
NEW YORK. April 25 One-Round
Hogan, of California, has signed to
meet Young Shugrue, of Jersey City,
for fifteen rounds at the Annex Ath
letic Club, of New Haven, on May 12.
VALDOSTA TRIMS COLUMBIA.
VALDOSTA. GA.. Ap-i1 25.—The
Valdosta league team defeated the
Columbia College baseball team from
Lake City, Fla., here yesterday by a
score of 15 to 0.
BASEBALL.
Diamond News and Gossip
I'mpire Kerin displayed some of the
finest voices in the game yesterday
and looked like a pretty good umpire
with it. 4
Wally Smith surely burns the ball to
first when there is* need of hurry. He
nearly telescoped Agler on a couple
yesterday.
* * *
Whoever told Elberfeld his men could
steal at random on Dunn crossed him.
They tried it at the start of the game,
and Dunn threw them out, one by one,
by about ten feet apiece.
* * «
When Elston tried to steal in the sec
ond, Alperman got the ball ami stood
twiddling his thufnbs. waiting for the
runner to get near enough to be tagged
out.
* • *
Elberfeld is ilv* wise guy about bis
pitchers. He will not announce them
until just before the game starts. This
would be all right it' it made any differ
ence, but not with the Kid’s staff
* *
Dunn earned his pay. Both Bausewein
and Price gave him a couple to stop
that were right on the ground.
* * m
The sewer had a big day yesterday,
and the smell—whew!
» « «
Detroit got 21 men to-first in a recent
game* twelve to second, six to third
and only three to home plate.
• * *
Detroit papers are panning the Tigers
HARD.
• * *
Now they say 11a! Chase is to go to
center field. It is pretty generally ad
mitted now that he can't play second
base.
♦ * #
Wilbert Robinson is working dim
Thorpe with a spithall ever> morning,
and believe mo he may yet develop the
Rednjan into a fair slabster
* * *
Morton F Plant, backer of the New
London club, is not only financing a
losing venture, but has built for him
self and his friends a little private
grandstand.
* * *
Left-handers are starting' BIG in the
major leagues. Wellman and Gregg
won their first three games, largely
without support.
But then .here are right-handers--for
instance Seaton, who opened with two
shut-outs.
, * * *
.lack O'Connor will manage tin* St.
Louis dub in the Federal League
which ought to assure the success of
the team, the leagu?, disorganized base
ball, the earth ami the universe. Jack
was sure a grand manager in his South
ern League days.
* * *
It may not be entirely due to an im
provement in John McGraw's eyesight
that lie is able to announce be can see
the weaker teams of the National
League have improved.
* *■ *
If Congress is going to investigate
baseball, why not begin with the Chat
tanooga team. •
* * *
The Cubs have a scheme for banishing
trie batting Jinx. When they can't hit,
they mix the hats all up and pick a
stick at random. It always results in
a hatting rally
"Heinie" Zimmermap recently made
an exceptionally successful steal of
home, except that the umpire didn't
allow 1 it.
* • •
The Cincinnati fans have an odd s>s-
tem for keeping their courage up. They
say that last year the Hurtling Hanks
made a fine start—and then fell dead.
This year the team has started so slow
ly that it ought to keep moving all
the season.
* • •
Rube Waddell and Bill Lelivelt (the
latter late of the Southern Leaguer have
been shipped by the Minneapolis team
of the American Association to the
Minneapolis team of the Northern
League.
Think of Rube Waddell in the North
ern League!
Davenport says the New Yorks are
running for Sweeney instead of for
Chance
* * *
Baseball is becoming popular in
France which should not be field
against the game in any way.
* * •
In speaking the name of Cleveland’s
new pitcher. Glavenlch, accent it on the
last syllable.
If Dolly Stark could get hold of the
money spent on his carfare recently he
would be able to*retlre. From Kan An
tonio to Cleveland, to Dayton, to the
Southern League, to Brooklyn, to Buf
falo, to Sacramento is nothing for
him He ought to visit Alaska and
Japan by way of rounding out bis
career.
* * *
The penalty Rat Graham pays for be
ing popular with Bill Smith is that he
has to work in almost every game.
When Smith fancies a catcher fie surely
works him.
Charley Sterrett won his job as
Chance's understudy on the strength of
his hitting
* • *
Rochester will send McMurray to
Syracuse.
MHTWJirr
COLUMN-
A S nearly as we can make out
from the comments of the base
ball moguls on the resolution to
investigate the Gobb case In Congress,
tljese gentlemen arc better money-
grabbers than lawyers.
Cobb is the most popular ball play
er in the world to-day. and as he
was about to be frozen out of has -
hall in spite of the fact that thousands
of fans go to the ball narks of eight
cities every summer to see him p ay.
the method by which this was brought
t^bout is worth a look nr even two
looks.
Cobb demanded a ealarv of $15,he
frpm the Detroit Club this year and
was told to behave and be glad to
take what he was offered. Cobb re
fused to sign as suggested, and In*
is now automatically suspended. If
a player does not sign at whatever
figure the club sees fit to appraise
him at, within ten da vs after th
opening of the reason, he cannot p!ay
baseball anywhere for money until
he is reinstated by the National Com.
mission.
No other club of the 325 in the
gigantic baseball trust will bid tor
Ills services. To at least a dozen
of these clubs Cobb in worth a pur
chase price of $25,000 and a salary
of $15,000. but none of them is al
lowed to negotiate with him on pen
alty of a heavy fine.
Observe, gentle reader. Cobb ie not
now under any contract. His agree
ment with the Detroit Club has ex
pired But there is a reserve clause
which makes him the property of
the dub just tin same and make?
the length of contract a farce. They
can sign him up for a minute, a mqnth
or a decade, and it makes no <1 ifft r-
f nee to their title. They own him
for as long as they want him. and
no one else can even make him an
offer.
Any league that is organized to play
the national game of the American
people without permission of Bar,
Johnson, Garry Herrmann, Tom
Lynch and others Is promptly de
clared "outlawed.” It Is boycotted
and systematically wrecked. In much
the same fashion as the National
Cash Register Company's officers
showed prospective creditors the
“boneyard." filled with the remain*
of others who tried to fight them, the
heads of organized baseball can point
to the long trail of wrecked leagues
that have tried to play Independent
baseball in the United States.
Baseball is no longer a sport. No
on*- thinks it Is a sport hut th** fan
who pays his money to see good hall
playing, and he has to see ju*t the
kind of ball playing that the bosses
of the trust see fit to give him or
stay away. It is a purely commercial
proposition, organized and conducted
for the sole purpose of making as
much and as quickly ns possible
Do you *uppose it is an accident
that McGraw is able* to buy nearly
any ball player he fancies, or merely
because he can afford to pay more?
Well, it isn’t. It is to the interest
of both leagues to have a winning
club in New York. Then they can
all make more money. How do you
suppose Frank -Chance got out of
the National League? Do you think
no one wanted the man who had won
three world’s championships? Think
everybody in the National Lea gin-
thought h* was done? You ran bet
— but rfot inside a ball park—that
they didn't. Ye; seven club owner 1 *
In the National League waived on
Chance or he could not have gone
to New York.
The heads of tin* organization *»y
that they will he glad to have an in
ti
vestigation. Ball plnvers would prob
ably be even more glad and tin* pub
lic ought to be tickled :o death. The
right of contract in the case of the
ball player has been utterly suspend
ed You don't have to go any further
than that to get a line on what an
investigation would show, of course
he doesn’t have to .sign unless he
wants to. Danglars in the bandits'
cave didn't have to pay the $20,0<mi
for a meal that the bandit* charged
him. All he had to do was quit eat
ing.
* * *
T HE reserve clause in players'
* contracts,” said President Lvneh,
of the National League, "is the foun
dation of baseball.” Now. that jus!
shows how a false impression will
gain ground. Here for a quarter of
ji century the American public has
been going along in the blind belief
that skill, sportemanshin and pluck
were th** foundations of baseball. But
Mr Lynch means that the reserve
clause is the foundation of the base
ball monopoly.
HUGGINS' FATHER DEAD.
CINCINNATI. April 24. James T.
Hoggin*, father of Miller Hugging
manager of the St. Louis National
baseball team, died suddenly at his
home here yesterday. He was 63
years old.
LEAGUE TO MEET.
The Junior Sunday School League,
which opens its svason to-morrow!
will hold Its final meeting prepara
tory to the opening at 6:30 o’clock
to-night at 97 Peachtree Street.
All teams are requested to have
their reserve lists ready for the league
secretary.
TECH CLASHES
WITH ALABAMA
“ TEAM TO-DAY
T
HE Tech Yellow' Jackets cross
bats with the Alabama buys
to-day in Tuscaloose. The
University of Alabama has not play
ed Tech since 1911. and they are de
termined to get away with the se
ries.
Fitts will pitch the opener and Eu
banks will try out his whin in the
last game. Both of these men are
going good in practice, and there is
no reason why they should slump in
gamps. Attridge will catch one of
the games. A mason, the lad from
Stone Mountain, will play the initial
sack. The remainder or the line-up
will he the same as used in all pre
vious games.
Tech this year has rounded into
great shape. There has been very lit
tle lagging in practice, and th" men
have been working with a vim for
weeks.
The team left last night and will
return Monday morning. The\ will
play the boys from Wake Forest here
Monday. This should be a good game
as Wake Forest has been playing ex
tra good hall this season. The new
diamond is in good shape, the recent
hot weather having given the workers
a chance to smooth and pack it. It is
now one of the fastest diamonds in
the S. 1. A. A.
AUBURN AND MERCER
CLASH IN BALL SERIES
AM BRUTS, GA.. April 25 —Auburn
and Mercer will play a series of three
games here to-day and Saturday. A
double-header is scheduled for Satur
day.
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