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TIIE ATLANTA GKO KOI A \ AND NEWS, EK1DAV. ALKIE 2~\ 191?,.
l«v Perry II. Whiting.
1 AXAUERS SMITH and El-
l„ rfeld will sound the big
Sims of the campaign to-day
,io guns of the campaign who
1 xxirn from the slab this after-
i, Musser and Summers.
, , , s the bright hurling star
i 'nicker team. Summers is
k in„\ left hander the .Elbcr-
hn. just secured from the
suite "Rudy” Summers,
iWm 13 and lost 7 for the Nash-
. ,,. m last season.
t ',, vc men go tut advertised it
i„ a grand battle. However it
(here should be excitement, if
,. M of yesterday and the day
; call be regarded as lndica-
, up to Mussfcr to go some.
I Becker is to be turned
. ,-jaht away. And Orile Wea-
, la,- Bill Smith worried bright
II Weaver has started three times
ami three times he lias been
knocked out of the box
HI,.in now lie is claiming a sore
Tim" There seems nothing the mat-
, v , |,t a kink somewhere abaft
arm. But it is a real kink
Weaver absolutely tied up.
When Orile warmed up Wednes-
|„ seemed to have everything
i, m it didn't stay with him. How-
Bill Smith hopes he is improv-
Weaver has been counted on as
■ I,,.'big pitching success of the Crack-
Y, t ,-, m and if he goes astray it will
bother a good bit. ’ •
for the present Smith is not go
ing ,,, worry. Brady and Price both
wum' O' work'twice a week. Musser is
Y‘,,,,1 f, ,i i game a week. Bausewein
ought to bo able to stick through his
ne ®, call!!'. And Smith will not
• aYn (If course later if he neecis
a man from the btg leagues there
; \ i„ one forthcoming.
J * * *
ir mi CRACKERS won again yes-
1 t.'rday. 5 to 4. And they surely
perspired profusely before it was
, v.a The game was scheduled for
the to -out of George Bausewein,
•||, charlotte wonder. And don’t
hold it against him. He is a big,
hush chap, Inclined to run to fat.
p is hard enough for hitn to keep
in condition, under the most favor
able circumstances. And lately, be
muse of a sprained ankle, he has
hern unable to work at all. He
lasted three innings fine and with tile
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
cuk. d and Eiberfeld drove in three
runs with a triple into the 'center
field ditch.
That last hit ended Bausewein’s
I try-out.
But don't consider that any sure
indication that Bausewein is not go
ing to lie one of Atlanta’s pitchers.
He needs work and he will get it.
His next out may be highly im-
T
1 cent in and it stuck there about
I two minutes, after which Eiberfeld
cored on Massey’s sacrifice fly.
Then the Crackers started bid
ing r r ilie had again. They got
Ine in the fifth and then Kid
who was hurling for the El-
I beri.i!•, struck out Welchonce and
Bail. y. the league batting leaders
| of 1913 and considerable hitters this
h'gosh. In the sixtli Smith
cut a triple, with one down.
| kit Dobard ami Dunn couldn't de-
iivei.
* * *
IX gt’->d time came the seventh
1 inning. Price grounded to Elber-
t’elcl and the Kid errored. Agler
sacrificed. And then came Alper-
man..
B< it noted that Alperman had al-
reaL made three singles in succes
sion out of three times up. It was
a lr;ic too much to expect that he
<ou'; i single again. But lie did, a
'T blow to right field, and Price
home with the run that tied
1 t) "YVhitey” went to sac-
(, n<l ■ th« throw to the plate and
1 when Welchonce singled. This
run gave Atlanta the game.
* * *
| TH IS Alperman is a bad hitter. He
knocked the ball to all four
cornels of the lot yesterday and
[■'■'■tv'Where the fielders went for him
i .’'ossod them. Once, when they
figured out, he drove such
: D iifi lick to Eiberfeld that it
bill'd the Kid all over the dia-
A speaking of Eiberfeld, you have
' l i'd it to him for trying to play
l!l1 ' v hole diamond. He goes to the
j« ’i bunts, he goes to the out-
\ l ' flies, he goes fo third for
I 6 1 ploys and nobody will be
1 rl i i - <• < 1 If he covers home plate or
u - i few in a pinch. The Kid
' Ding nice ball and his-hit yes-
1,1,1 ' nearly put the ball game to
P
W
H pitched a marvelously good
yesterday after be re-
‘ Bausewein. Just one hit was
' ; off bis delivery, and that was
1 Street’s dubious double,
r i c kerned to have a lot of con-
" n ‘-" find a lot of-.curves.
1 H real reluctance Bill Smith
! s given Lew McAllister his
: itional release. The Albany
; >nted Lew for a manager and
-Atlanta club could have made
1 *ney selling him. ft is re-
dso that Chattanooga would
ci if waivers were asked. But
1 *d club felt that, as Lew had
b when a free agent, he was
‘ ’ to his release. Two of Lew's
’ n are sick and he is anxious
■t home.
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SIT.LEAGUE
T HE Atlanta Gas Light Company
waa admitted into the Saturday
Afternoon Baseball League at. a
meeting of the board of directors of
the league held at the College Co-op.
Exposition Mills, Fulton Bhg and
Cotton Mills, Whittier Mills. Auto
Top Compajiy, and North Atlanta
Stars are the other five teams con
stituting this league. All of them
were in this circuit last season.
\V 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 the entire
season was adopted at the meeting
last night, providing for fifteen
games for each team.
The schedule in full:
APRIL 26—Auto Top Company vs.
Atlanta Gae 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 vs.
Exposition Mills at Exposition: ,\ -
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 Fulton; Exposition Mills vs. Whit
tier at Whittier.
MAY 17—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 7—Auto Top Company vs.
Exposition Mills at Exposition; At
lanta Gas Company vs. JYorth 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 Bag at Fulton; Exposition
Mills vs. North Atlanta Stars at Ex
position, Atlanta Gas Company vs.
Whittier at Whittier.
JUNE 28—Auto Top Company vs.
Whittier at Whittier. Exposition
Milis vs Atlanta Gas Company at
Exposition: North Atlanta Stars vs.
Fulton Bag at Fulton.
JULY »—Auto. Top < oinpan> vs.
Atlanta Gas Company at Fulton; Ex
position Mills vs. Fulton Bag at Ex
position; North Atlanta Stars vs.
Whittier at Whittier.
JULY 12—Auto Top Company vs.
Exposition at Exposition; Atlanta
Gas Company vs. North Atlanta
Stars at Whittier; Fulton Bag vs.
Whittier at Fulton. .
It’I V 19—Auto Top ' onipany \s.
North Atlanta Stars at Whittier; At
lanta Gas Company vs. i niton Bag at
Fulton; Exposition Mills vs. Whit
tier at Exposition.
Baseball Fans Side With Cobb
Q O © © 0 © ©
Many Clubs Would Pay $15,000
Meredith out of races.
I km.a DELPHI A. April Ted
|vl’. r s bir runner of the Uni-
1 °f Pennsylvania, is at odds
'he faculty because he has
in some of his examinations
faculty may not permit him
r ~ik r * in the races Saturday.
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position,
Whittier at Whittier.
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
LOS 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, Cienfuegos
and Santiago. He says that the
game has not advanced far enough
yet for the idea to be popular, but
that in a few years’ time he will
have such a league play on the is
land every winter.
LORD TO LEAD BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE. MD., April 25.—Jack
I Dunn of the Baltimore team, has
decided to have a field captain after
all and Briscoe Lord will get the
1 appointment.
Dropping all the pesdflage that in
fests both sides of the Ty Cobb argu
ment. there are only two practical
questions that concern us outsider.":
1. Is the Gem of Georgia worth
$15,000 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 other 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 po 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 is* 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-Cobh argu
ment. This is what he said:
An outrage—an outrage, sir! I
go to the ball game every pleasant
afternoon. It’s my recreation. I
pay a good dollar almost every
day to see baseball. There are
thousands more like me We are
entitled to the best baseball there
is. in return for our money. Jt
is up to those 'fellows (the mag
nates) 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 this* game. If they gave Ty
Cobb $15,000 a year it would
amount to about $100 a game.
If we pay $4,000 to sec a ball
game—which is a moderate day
at most big parks—$100 a game
is little enough to pay a \' ver
who gives us the run fer 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 ns
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!
Wc want what we pay foe. It's
a fhame to keep a fellow like
Cobb from playing baseball.
Is Baseball Slavery?
On the other hand, a working man
who 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 bofs 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 what you can get.
It’s the skill with which they
do it that gets them the good
salaries.
Only a few at the top, in base
ball. 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 for a fel
low who gives up only four hours
a day six months in a year to the
game. But what of it? How about
the doctor whose skill gets* him
$1,000 for an operation that takes
but hi teen 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
league 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 players
are all there is to the game, and
they’re entitled to a fair share
of the profits and to work for
whom they please.
The Middle-of-the-Road “Fan.”
Then there is the half-way-between
I “fan”—the fellow' who isn't worried
i one way or the other about other
i people’s business or abstract econo
mic problems. Here’s wh^t one of
them said:
What’s it to me? If Cobb pulls
BASEBALL
Diamond Mews and Gossip
the money in at the gate they
ought to pay hini 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 see rous
ing baseball—the kind that keeps
you excited.
If Detroit can’t make enough
off Cobb 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, wherever 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 the 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 hid 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. He declared, emphatically:
Would 1? 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 Jenning-’ 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’
public.
What the “Fans” Want.
It is a good guess that while most
“fans” appreciate the benefits of
baseball so organized as to assure
good contests, they are willing to let
the magnate? 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 he produced, play-,
ed by the best players obtainable'
and. second, they want the magnates
io pay whatever they have to, in or
der to give them that kind of sport.
Concerning C<»bb in particular,
most of them seem to be willing to
admit that whether 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 CAN afford to pay
him that sum.
Cobb is certainly a 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 thi
“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 BELfMONT.
ST. LOUIS, April 25.—Carl Morris.
Oklahoma heavyweight, knocked out
Klngdon Belmont, of St. Louis, in the
third round of their scheduled eight-
round fight here.
SUNDAY BALL BARRED AT YALE.
NEW HAVEN. CONN., April 2fi.~
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 ^he 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., April 25.—The
Valdosta league team defeated th'*
Columbia College baseball team from
Lake City, Fla., hero yesterday by a
score of 15 to 0. ,
Umpire Kerin displayed some of the
finest voices in the game yesterday
and looked like a pretty good umpire
with it.
Wally Smith surely burns the ball to
first when there is need of hurry. Me
nearly telescoped Agler on a couple
yesterday.
• * *
Whoever told Eiberfeld 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 and stood
twiddling his thumbs, waiting for the
runner to get near enough to be tagged
out.
* • •
Eiberfeld is the wise guy about his
pitchers. He will not announce them
until just before the game starts. This
would be all right—if 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
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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
only three tq home plate.
I
Detroit papers are panning the Tigers j
HARD.
* * *
Now they say Hal 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 Jim
Thorpe with a spitball every morning,
and believe me he may yet develop the
Redman 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 BlG in the
major leagues. Wellman and Gregg
w u their first three games, largely
without support. ,
* * *
But then there are right-handers- for
instance Seaton, who opened with two
shut-cuts.
* * *
Jack O’Connor will manage the St.
Louis club in the Federal League -
which ought to assure the success of
the team, the league, disorganized base
ball, the earth and 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 he is able to announce he can see
the weaker teams of the National
League have improved.
* <• *
If (’ongress is going to investigate
baseball, why not begin with the Chat
tanooga team.
* * *
The Cubs have a scheme for banishing
the batting jinx. When they can’t hit.
they mix the bats all up and pick a
stick at random. It always results in
a batting rally.
*_ * *
“Heinie" Zimmerman recently made
an exceptionally successful steal of
home, except that the umpire didn’t
allow it.
* * •
The Cincinnati fans have an odd sys
tem for keeping their courage tip. 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 League) 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 tne New Yorks are
running for Sweeney instead of for
Chance.
* * *
Baseball is becoming popular In
France—which should not be held
against the game in any way.
• * •
In speaking the name of Cleveland’s
new pitcher. Glavenich, accent it on the
last syllable.
• * •
Tf Dolly Stark could get hold of the
money spent on his carfare recently he
would be able to retire. From San 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 his
career.
The penalty Pat Graham pays for be
ing popular with Bill Smith is that he
has to work in almost every game.
When Smith fancie-H a catcher he surely
works him.
Charley Sterrett won his job as
Chance's understudy on the strength of
J his hitting
| * * •
I
MUTWjnr
COLUMN *
TECH CLASHES
WITH HI
TEAM TD-DAf
A S nearly as we can make out
from the comments of the base
ball moguls on the resolution to
investigate the Cobb case In Congress,
these gentlemen are better mqney-
grabbers than lawyers.
Cobb is the most popular ball play
er In the world to-day, and as lie
was about to be frozen out of tns- -
ball In spite of the fact that thousands
of fans go to the ball parks of eight
cities every summer to see him play,
the meth(Kl by which this was broughi
about is worth a look or even t\ o
looks.
Cobb demanded a nalarv of $15.0*'
from the Detroit Club this year and
was told to behave and be glad to
take what be was offered. < 'obb re
fused to sign as suggested, and !i»*
is now automatically suspended. If
a player does not sign at whatever
figure the club sees fit to appraise
him at. within ten days after thu
opening of the .season^ he cannot play
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 for
Ills services. To at least a dozen
of these clubs Cobb is worth a pur
chase price of $25,000 and a salary
of $15,000. hut none of them is al
lowed to negotiate with him on pen
alty of a heavy fine.
Observe, gentle reader, Cobb 1? not
now under any contract. His agree
ment wit’ll the Detroit Club has ex
pired But there is a reserve clause
which makes him the property of
the dub just the same and makes
the length of contract a farce. They
can sign him up for a minute, a month
or a decade, and it makes no differ
ence to their title. They own him
for as long ns they want him, and
no one else can even make him an
otter.
Any league that is organized to play
the national game of the American
people without permission of Ban,
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
('ash Register Company’s officers
showed prospective creditors the
“boneyard,” filled with the remains
of others who tried to flsrht 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
one thinks it is a sport but the fan
who pays his money to see good ball
playing, and he has to see ju. l *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 as possible.
Do you smppose, it is an accident
that MeGraw iH able to buy nearly
any ball player ho fancies, or merely
because be 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 League
thought he was clone? You can bet
—but not inside a ball park—that
they didn’t. Yet seven club owners
In the National League waived on
Chance or be could not have gone
to New York.
The heads of the organization eay
that they will foe glad to have an In
vestigation. Ball nlnvers would prob
ably be even more glad and the pub
lic ought to be tickled to death. Th<
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 courgt
be doesn’t have to sign unless he
wants to. Danglars in the bandits’
cave didn’t have to pay the $2U,00U
for a meal that the ban-lit." charged
him. All he had to do was quit eat
ing.
• • •
“THE reserve clause In payers’
1 contracts.” said President Lynch,
of the National League. “Is the foun
dation of baseball.” Now. that jus'
shows how a false Impression wlil
gain ground. Here for a quarter of
.a century the American public ha
been going along in the blind belief
that skill, sportenmnshlo and pluck
were the foundations of baseball. But
Mr Lynch means that the reserv
clause is the foundation of the base
ball monopoly.
HUGGINS’ FATHER DEAD.
CINCINNATI. April 24 James T.
Huggins, father of Miller Huggim,
manager of the St. Louis National
basebal! team., died suddenly at his
home here yesterday. He wag 63
years old.
LEAGUE TO MEET.
The Junior Sunday School League,
which opens its season 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.
T HE Tech Yellow Jackets cross
bats with the Alabama boys
to-day in Tuscaloosa. The
University of Alabama has not play
ed Tech since 1911, and they are de
termined to get away with the se
ries.
Pitts will pitch the opener and Eu
banks will try out his whip in th«
last game. Both of these men are
going good in practice, and there is
no reason why they should slump in
games. 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 be 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 the men
have been working with a vim for
weeks.
The team left last night and will
return Monday morning. They will
play the boys from Wake Forest here
Monday. This should be a good game
as Wake Forest has been playing ex
tra good ball 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. I. A. A.
AUBURN AND MERCER
CLASH IN BALL SERIES
AMERICUS. GA.. April 25. -Auburn
and Mercer will play a series of throe
games here tq-day and Saturday. A
double-header Is scheduled for Satur
day.
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