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THE ATLANTA GKOHOJAN AND NEWS, FKIl)A\. APRIL 25; 191T
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Mutt Is Too Impatient To Be a First-Class School Teacher
By “Bud” Fisher
11y Percy H.'Whiting.
M anagers smith and ei-
herfeld will sound the big
guns of the campaign to-day
Tig guns of the campaign who
' |„„Tm from the slab this after-
' Musser and Summers.
is the bright liurling star
i racket' team. Summers is
i -kinnt left hander the Elber-
I,. just secured from the
; , same "Rudy” Summers,
w ,,„ lit and lost 7 for the Nash-
, ( team last season. ...
j , men go as advertiser, it
,, O' a grand battle. However it
(I,,. re should be excitement, if
.s of yesterday and the day
, run be regarded as indica-
IT up to Musser to go some.
1 | U , u Becker is to be turned
■j',,' right away. And (trlie Wea-
Bill Smith worried bright!
\Y, re- has started three times
ml three times he has been
k.,1 out of the box.
Pight now he is claiming a sore
' •'i'll,. r e seems nothing the mat-
, . ", v , |,t a kink somewhere abaft
j,,,. tlll varm. But it is a real kink
m j i, ;iS Weaver absolutely tied up.
\v ii nrlie warmed up Wednes-
seemed to have everything
“urn it didn't stay with him. How-
mu Smith hopes he is improv-
j]lt \\,\. r has been counted on its
• 1,,,'lug pitching success of the Crack-
•„. im and if he goes astray it will
bother it good bit. .
p,,. t he present Smith is not go-
i,,,- u , worry. Brady and Price both
pi work twice a week. Musser is
g.H.il for a game a week. Bausewein
(lustht to be able to stick through his
nex! game. And Smith will not
wurrt of course later if he needs
„ man from the big leagues there
m:iv be one forthcoming.
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rp }| [.; CRACKERS won again yes-
1 |, rdav, to 4. And they surely
perspired profusely before it was
ov.-r The game was scheduled for
il„ try-out of George Bausewein,
;j], Charlotte wonder. And don’t
hold it against him. He is a big,
huskr chap, inclined to run to fat.
It is hard enough for him to keep
in . nndition, under the most favor
able circumstances. And lately, be-
,.,msi of n sprained ankle, lie has
been unable to work at all. He
lasted three innings fine and with the
score 11 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
d Elberfeid drove in three
runs with a triple into the center
lield 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 lie will get it.
His next out may be highly im
pressive.
* * *
THE score was tied when Price
* ,vc-nt in and it stuck there about
two minutes, after which Elberfeid
sowed on Massey’s sacrifice fly.
Then the Crackers started bid-
; ding f r the lead again. They pot
tnt i in the fifth and then Kid i
j Trn; who was hurling for the El-
berkids, struck out Welehonce and
Bailey, the league batting leaders
of r : and considerable hitters this
I y.a: b'gosh. In the sixth Smith
jaced out a triple, with one down.
But Dobard and Dunn couldn’t de-
IX gu-od time came the seventh
* inning. Price grounded to Elber-
feld and the Kid errored. Agler
sacrificed. And then came Alper-
man.
B< it noted that Alperma-n had ai
r-ad made three singles in succes
sion out of three times up. it was
a lit I•' too much to expect that he
'"•u! single again. But he did, a
‘lean blow to right field, and Price
’ on; t : home with the run that tied
' n. ’ Whltey” went to sec-
(i r.d .in the throw to the plate and
e": ti when Welehonce singled. This
run gave Atlanta the game.
* * *
THIS Alperman is a bad hitter. He
knocked the ball to all four
orners of the lot yesterday and
1 1 vv here the fielders went for him
'S ti them. Once, when they
him figured out, he drove such
lick to Kii>iiT. m that It
'Tilled the Kid all over the dia-
M speaking of Elberfeid, you have
' i'd it to him for trying to play
| i<‘ whole diamond. He goes to the
; b»r bunts, he goes to the out-
1 f r flies, he goes to third for
B d plays and nobody will be
:, i i cd if he covers home plate or
few in a pinch. The Kid
| s ' mg nice ball and his hit yes-
l( ' i> nearly put the ball game to
pH!
I Price
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1 i'l pitched a marvelously good
yesterday after he re-
I ’ usewein. Just one hit was
"IT his delivery, and that was
> Street’s dubious double.
eemed to have a lot of con-
1 and a lot of curves.
* * *
i H real reluctance Bill Smith
• given Lew McAllister his
1 itional release. The Albany
nted Lew for a manager and
Atlanta club could have made
money selling him. It is re-
9 Iso that Chattanooga would
m if waivers were asked. But
<d club felt that, aft Lew had
"'hen a free agent, he was
' d to his release. Two of Lew’s
m ire sick and he is anxious
t home.
Meredith out of races.
k-IIl. VDKLPHIA. April 20.—Tod
■ uT. star runner of the Unl-
*. . of Pennsylvania, Is at odds
i, the faculty because he has
I in some of his examinations
I faculty may not permit him
' ge in the races Saturday.
SIT.LEAGUE
T HE Atlanta Gas Light Company
was 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 Bag and
Cotton Mills, Whittier Mills. Aut'o
Top Company, and North Atlanta
Stars are the other five teams con
stituting this league. AH 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 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 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 vs.
Exposition Mills at Exposition; At
lanta Gas Company vsv 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—Amo 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 vs.
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 W'htLtier.
JUNE 28—Auto Top Company vs.
Whittier at Whittier; .Exposition
Mil s vs Atlanta Gas • ompany it
Exposition; North Atlanta Stars vs.
Fulton Bag at Fulton. _
JULY' ■> -Auto lop » ompanj \ s.
Atlanta Gas Company at Fulton; Ex
position Mills vs. Fulton Bag at Ex
position; North Atlanta Stars \ s.
Whittier at Whittier.
II'LY 12— Auto Top C ompany s s.
Exposition at Exposition; Allan a
Gas- Company vs. North Atlanta
Stars at Whittier; Fulton Bag \s.
Whittier at Fulton.
JULY 19—Auto Top Company vs.
North Atlanta Stars at Whittier; At
lanta Gas Company vs. Fulton Bag at
Fulton; Exposition Mills vs. Whit-
tif-r iit Exposition.
JULY 26-Auto Top Company vs.
Fulton Bag at Fulton; Exposition
Mills vs. North Atlanta Stars at Ex
position; Atlanta Gas Company ^ s.
Whittier at Whittier.
•aitGUST 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
Baseball Fans Side With Cobb;
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Many Clubs Would Pay $15,000
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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
a nil Santiago. He says that the
game has not advanced far enough
vet for the idea to be popular, out
that in a few years' time he vvi.l
have such a league play on the is
land every winter.
LORD TO LEAD BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE. MIX, April 25.- Jack
Dunn of the Baltlmdre team, has
decided to have tt (1-dd captain after
Ih". and Briscoe Lord will get the
I appointment.
Dropping all the peeiflage that in
fests both sides of the Ty Cobb argu
ment, there are only two practical
questions that concern us outsiders':
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 no real practical concern
to the public. You can’t got 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 in a sample: The writer met
a rich old "fan” recently—the old-
fashioned vested interests "bug,” w'no
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 I
go to the ball game every pleasant
afternoon. It’s my recreation. I
pay a good dollar almost every
day to sec- 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 fellows (the mag
nates) to give us the best there is.
They can afford it. Why. loo_k at
that crowd! (He pointed to 7,<)()('
"fans.”) They paid about $4,000
to see thin game. If they gave Ty
Cobb $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 f' 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 epent in the game. But
what's that to me” I only pay
five times as much to see opera as
to see a bail 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 shame 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 boss gives them,
or quit playing altogether. It's
slavery. They’re bought and sold
like so many eatle.
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 dav 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 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
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 “Fab.”
Then there Is the half-way-between
I “fan"—the fellow who isn't worried
J one way or the other about other
' people’s business or abstract econo-
I mlc problems. Here’s what one of
them -aid:
What's it'to me? If Cobb pulls
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tho money In a! 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-*o 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.
Burring influences “higher up.’’ it
is safe to say that there are at least
four clubs, and probably more, that
would be glad bf 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 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. He declared, emphatically:
Would I? Well, you give me a
chance and see. Would Cobb
make trouble for mo 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 ami llie Detroit Club,
solely, as it stands.
It is a good guess that any one of
the clubs that could and would tak-
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’
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 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 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 lo pfay 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 tht
“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.
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 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-il 25.—Tho
Valdosta league team defeated th"
Columbia College baseball team from
Lake City. Fla., hero yesterday by a
score of 15 to 0.
Empire 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 lie
nearly telescoped Agler on a couple
yesterday.
* * *
Whoever told Elberfeid bis men could
steal at random < n Dunn crossed him.
They tried it at tbn start of the game,
and Dunn threw them out, one by one.
by about ten feet apiece.
* * *
When Elston t.rled to steal in the sec
ond. .Mperman got the ball and stood
twiddling bis thumbs, waiting foA the
runner to get near enough to be tagged
out.
Elberfeid 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.
* * m
Dunn earned his pay. Both Bausewein
and Price gave him a couple to stop
that were right on the ground
The sewer had a big day yesterday, j
and the smell whew!
* * *
Detroit got 21 men to first in a recent
game. twt>lve to second, six to third
and only three to home plate
• * *
Detroit papers are panning the Tigers
HARD
• * *
Now they say Hal Chase is to go U)
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 lias built for him
self and his friends a little private
grandstand.
* * •
Left-handers are starting BIG in the
major leagues Wellman and Gregg
v. n their first three games, largely
without support.
* * *
But then there are right-handers—for
Instance Seaton, who opened with two
shut-outs.
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 bis 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 Congress is going to investigate
baseball, why not begin with the Chat
tanooga team.
<« s *
The Cubs have a scheme for banishing
tho 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 <>f
home, except that the umpire didn’t
allow it.
* * •
The Cincinnati fans have an odd sys
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 ksep moving all
the season.
* * •
Rube Waddell and Bill Ijelivelt (the
latter late of the Southern League) have
been shipped by the .Minneapolis tenrn
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 held
against the game in any way.
* • •
In speaking the name of Cleveland's
new pitcher, Glavenich, accent it on the
last syllabic.
• * *
If Dolly' Stark could get hold of the
moneys 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 fancies a catcher he surely
works him.
MUTWJirr
COLUMN-
A S nearly as we van make out !
front the comments of the base- j
ball n^oguls on the resolution to )
investigate the Cobb case in Congress. \
these gentlemen are better money- I
grabber® than lawyer.®.
Cobb is the most popular hall plav- )
er in the world to-day. and as he
was about to be frozen out of has -
ball in spite of the fact that thousands
of fans go to the ball parks of eight
cities every summer to see him play, 1
the method by which this was brought 1
about is worth a look or even t \ e
looks.
Cobb demanded a Halarv of $15.0o '
from the Detroit Club this year an 1
was told to behave and be glad to
take what he was offered. Cobb re-J
fused to sign as suggested, and !t*» |
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 thi.
opening of the reason, he cannot play
baseball anywhere for money until
he is reinstated bv the National Com-
mission.
No other club of the 225 in tho
gigantic baseball trust will bid for
his services. To at least a dozen J
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 It* 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 club just the same and make?
the length of contract a farce. They
can sign him up for a minute, a month
or a decade, and if makes no differ
ence to their title They own him
for us 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 tho
“bonevaril,” filled with the remains
of others who tried to fiaht 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 Jus»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 puppose it is an accident
that McGraw is able to buy nearly
any ball player he fancies, or merely
because he van 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 eot out of I
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 done? 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 he could not have gone
to New York.
The heads of the organization pay
that they will be glad to have an in
vestigation. Ball nlavers would prob
ably be even more glad and the pub-
lie ought to be tickled to 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
titan that to get a 1 inon wlmt 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 $20,000 j
for a meal that the bandite charged
him All he had to do was quit eat
ing.
* • •
“'T^’IIE reserve clause in players’
‘ contracts.’’ said President Lvnch,
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
a century the American public has
been going along in the blind belief
that skill, sportfmmnshlo and pluck
were the 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.
Huggins, father of Miller Huggim,
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 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.
ryN HE Tech Yellow Jackets cross
I 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 the
last game. Both of these men are
going good in practice, and there is
no reason why they should slump in
games. At,tridge will catch one of
the games. A mason, the lad from
Stone Mountain, wifi 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 bean 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 tho 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, to-day and Saturday. A
double-header Is scheduled for Satur
day.
I
Here You Are!
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j his hitting.
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