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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN " e " M ULEUn (VEWsPUper 1w DoUtler It a 1 Gines HoiNe o o URSUAY,| MARCUE 18, 1920,
CRACKER PITCHERS CUT LOOSE---ONLY TWO PLAYERS ABSENT FROM CAMP
Sammy Thought He'd Go Fishing,
but C, Frank Rules Otherwise.
Makes Him Landscape Artist.
&0 By HENRY VANCE.
BAY ST. LOUIS., Miss., March 17,
The real work of the Crackers is just
beginning. Thus far they have done
little but toss 'em around. Pretty
soon, however, the pitchers will be
putting some stuff on the ball and
the hitters W{‘ll be putting some ash
on it. Although the slabsters were
supposed to report here on March 8
and get a week’s start on the infield
ers and "gardeners, they failed to
take the “come on” cue, and last week
the only Crackers in the fold were
Bog Higgins, Sammy Mayer and Zip
King. 4
Sunday the apple-chunkers began
arriving, however, and now all of
them are in camp, with the excep
tion of Harry Damrau, third sacker,
expected to report late, and Hern
don, outfielder, expected to report
later,
Sammy Mayer was the first
Qracker to hit town and Sammy came
to town with the intention of get
ting in a week or so of fishing. He
gol little of it, however, for the
Dutchman decided that Sammy was
a landscape artist de luxe, and he
put him in charge of shaping up
the diamond. And, now Sam is call
ing all the rakes and hoes by their
first names and can do morf with
a lawn mower than a monkey can
with a cocaaut. =
SAM RUNS HOTEL.
Bob Higgins has charge of the
field operations and tells the boys
when to start practise and when to
lay off. Mayer is the executive head
of the Cracker family. He writes the
checks, issues the equipment and runs
the hotel. I.ooks very comical to
see Sam take his clerkesque pose
behind the hotel register, with pencil
propped between. temple and,ear,
waiting for some inComing rookie
to ask:
“Have you gotta room with a
bath?” \
It's warm enough down here, but
the sun has gone on a strike. The
first aay after I cast anchor in the
burg the sun was shining like a ko
hinoor under an electric light. About
1 o'clock, however, the sun sought
a dug out or.-something and failed
to do anything in the shining line
for the rest of the day.
Slats Ledbetter says the climate
is much more to be admired than
his home town section in the Car
olimas. According to Slats, the snow
was a half-foot deep in ‘Asheville
when he shipped for the training
camp and was still falling. The tem
perature was doing the same thing.
And, Slats says the sun may ab
dicate for all he cares, just so it
keeps as warm as at present.
FOLKS DISAPPOINTED.
The townspeople come out to see
the Crackers work out daily, but are
a bit disappointed. It seems they ex
pected to see-a full grown ball game
on the first day of work, and as they
have seen no game yet, they are be
coming a bit dubious.
To dig up the young Ty Cobbs and
the embryo Walter Johnsons at this
stage of the \game is a rather diffi
cult talsk, when it is considered that
as yet, th= infields and outfields have
not been put through any grueling
work at all, and the pitchers have
been lobbing 'em over.
Bunkum Morris, however, the Bu
ford phenom, has been in camp
longer than the rest of the pitchers
and by getting a few days’ start on
the boys he is.able to cut 'em loose
at a more rapid gait. He is a tall,
rangy, left hander and seems to have
as much steam as a six cylinder
radiator, and a good hook. Bob Hig
ging is counting on Buli Durham, an
other left hander, 10 come through
with a blinding repertoire of stu?
Both men are semi-pros and left
handers.
With Sheehan, Thorburn, Boone,
Suggs, Roberts and Ledbetter, all
men of experience, on hand, however,
it's going to be mighty hard for a
young pitcher to land a berth with
the Crackers this season. In fact it
looks like Frank is going to have an
excellent pitching stafé from the
jump—one that can more than hold
its own with the rest of the outfits
in the league.
Higgins is depending on young Gor
don Powell, the Winder boy, to help
him do the catching this season. If
Powell comes through in a way that
is expected of him, he will probably
bhe the doubie header artist behind the
bat, It looks like Higgins is intend
ing doing as much work as ever for
he had a specially constructed mitt
made this winter and he's in there
every minute, taking gobs of prac
tise,
No dates have yet been an
nounced for exhibition games, but the
Cleveland Indians are to come over
for a couple of games and it may be
that the Athletics will stop off for a
setto with the Crackers when they
break camp at Lake Tharies.
Dan Boone Reports;
Talks of Big Show
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss.,, March 17.
Daniel Boce, one of the star hurlers
of last year’s Cracker slabbing corps,
Pullmaned into town during the eve
ning hours of Tuesday and there was
a general . hend shaking at the Hotel
Klock, for this Boone person, it
seems, I 8 quite popular with the
Cracker crew and it was the first time
the old htads had seen him since he
went to Philadelphia iast summer to
make a try for a berth with Connie
Mack.
Boone, however, wil! not begin
working out for several days yet. A
surgical gent whittled on his legha
few weeks ago and, although the in
cisions have healed, Daniel says he's
afraid to put too muci work on the
lef until released by the doctor, This
will be a few days hence,
Both Higgins and Sir Daniel had a
long chat in the hotel lobby last night
in which btoth querried the tall Ala-
Laman as to why he failed to make
<od in the majors.
BOONE WAS SCARED.
“To tell you the truth, T was
scared to death when I got to the
Lig show,” said Daniel. “I thought so,”
replied Higgins. I know I was
scared green when I first made a bid
for a top berth, and T am glad to
hear you own up. But the next time
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 17.—
}Aner a series of grueling bouts at
the Birmingham Athletic Club last
‘night, but twelve survivors are left
of a large field of entries, in the
Southern amateir boxing tournament.
The biggest surprise of the prelimi
naries was the knockout of John
Boardman of Camp Taylor by Ashton
Douza of New Orleans in the first
round. This gave the New Orleans
entry first place in the 115 round
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you get the chance that stage fright
will have vanished and all will be
gravy.”
“See Mack kept Hasty,” continues
Daniel, “and I know why, too. Hasty
struck out Ty Cobb last year in one
of the games he worked and that's
the reason he got another whack at
a big league job this spring and you
gotta give the big boy credit for whif
fing Cobb, too. 1 shouin’t pull the
stunt. 1n fact, when I was in there
against Detroit, I felt that the b:it
policy one could possibly pursue
would be to throw it and duck. I
threw ’em, and I ducked, but our
third sacker wasn’'t wise, and they
hammered 'em at' him like a barrage
of French ‘7s’'s,’ but even at that, it
must be admitted that 1 drew three
of the toughest pitchers in the Amer
ican League in the trio of games I
worked. [ got as pitching opponents
Dauss, Caldwell and Mays.”
FOG VERY THICK. |
The Crackers got a great workout
vesterday and Higgirs announced
that some infield work would be
gone through with today if the fog
lifted. At present the fog is as thick
as ten volumes of the Encyclopedia‘
Brittanira and T had to shovel a patch
from the hotel to the telegraph office
to get this message off.
Both Higgins, Sammy Mayer, Zip
King and I went fishing yesterday
afternoon, we caught tifty-seven fish,
ranging from a gquarter of a pound to
a pound and one-half and in breed
from the lcwly cat to the aristocratic
trout. Several croakers and a couple
Q’E crabs helped swell the catch. Sam
y sajd it was the first time he had
ever caught a crab with a hook, The |
Cracker gardener was the most suc- |
cessful of the bunch and if he keoew
up his wicked casting, Uncle Sam
will have to "restock the Atlantie
Ocean and the gulf with fish by the
time the Crackers break camp at Bay
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By CHARLES SHONESY.,
The first twelve men of the Pea
cock baseball’squad have received un
iforms for the coming season. The
suits were given out by Prof. W. H.
Evans of Peacock. Although the
team has not been picked as yet, and
the fight is still on for many posi
'tions on the team, the'boys needed
‘the suits, and it was thought that
this might also give the players addea
pep.
~ The men lucky enough to get uni
forms were Capt. Robert Mooty and
Red Laird, pitchers; Barnhart, catch
er; Venable and Waddy, first base;
Owens, second base; “Red” Minnhin
nett, shortstop; Bush and Crout, thira
base; Sparks, Yeager and Linton
outfielders.
PLAY LOCUST GROVE.
~ These players are the most prom
ising of the squad and will probably
be used in the majority of the games,
Peacock will get a jump on the other
local schools when they play Locust
Grove Institute in Locust Grove Sat
urday. This is the first game sched
uled by a local prep team., e
This is Peacock’s first year in
baseball for some time now, and this,
too, adds to the interest in the school.
With a line-up of the above strength,
there is not much doubt as to the
capability of the team. It will also
be well coached. Roy Moran, the
old Southern Leaguer, is teaching
the boys the fine points of the game,
and, needless to say, they are catch
ing on rapidly. Most of the boys
have played varsity ball before. |
Mooty and Laird are two dandy
pitchers. Mooty was rated as one o 1
the best in the league last year, and
with the addeéd seasoning he should |
again be near the_ top. He will be
remembered as one of the pitchers
and players who went to Columbus
and played Camp Benning with the
Georgian’s all-prep baseball team last
year,
The rest of the players are also
goofi and the game Saturday will be
vya,tthd .with interest. ¢
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| By GUNBOAT HUDSON,
Staff Correspondent Universal Service
| Jess Willard, former heavyweight
champion of the world, wants to fighe
‘Jack Dempsey f 6% the title—head
line.
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~ Great stuff! Jess wants to win
‘tho title back and become a circus
owner again,
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While a number of war heroes wear
the croix de guerre and other med
als of honor, plumbers, printers and
house painters' tote around the
greatest mark of distinction—the
sign of the egg on the vest,
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Prohibition has been and will con
tinue to be very tough on newspaper
cartoonists. Previously they drew a
picture of a bartender putting on the
swinging doors and entitled it “Signs
of Spring.” What'll they do now, we
ask you? |ls it not a tough proposi
tion?
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Of course, for the beginning of the
,baseball season they’ll draw the pel
let exploding with gloves, bats and
’ballmuyors as fragments, That is
expected any moment.
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We took this country from the
Redskins, but we'll be darned if we're
going to give it to the Reds.
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\ Had Stephen Decatur chirped his
famous phrase today instead of in
the beautiful past, he might have said
“our country, wet or dry, our coun
try.”
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Earl Caddock seems to be the only
‘wrestler i nthe game who uses his
head for other than butting purposes.
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But Joe Stecher, the champion, uses
his legs to better advantage.
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Now that we've finished showing
Europe how to fight, we'll send over
a delegation of lads to the Olympic
games to show them how to run.
. . .
We didn't do anything the last
time we were there. There's a time
and place for everything, |
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Now that the cellar has become lo‘
important a part of the average
household, where do they keep tho'
coal? That is, if they have any.
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Getting Up Teams
GRIFFIN, Ga., March 17.—Detailed
reports received from all the members
of the Georgia State League'at the
office of President J. P. Nichols Jr,
in this ecity during the past wek ln-[
dicate the work of local organization |
is progressing rapidly with the clubs,
Managers have been selected by most
of the clubs and several report en
gagements of players,
Judge P, M. Cleveland of this city
represented President Nichols at a
mass meeting in Cedartown last week,
at which local officers were elected
and plans made for ‘hé approaching
season, Reports from La Grange,
Rome, Lindale and Carrollton are to
the effect that new parks are being
built or old ones are undergoing re
ovation and other preparations are
r:nder way.
The contract for grad'ng the park,
'building a grand stand and bleachers
has been let by the Griffin club and
|thre work is already well in hand.
A mass meeting was held at the Grif
| fin Board of Trade Building Wed
[ nesday for the purpose of raising the
additional funds needoed by the local
club for the season. ™
Althouzh the definite schedule is
yvet incomplete,.. President Nichols
stated today that the season would
open about May 15 and close on Labor
Day, and that the schedule would
carry ninety games. Mr. Nichols hopes
to be able to annélince the schedule
within a wek or ten days.
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Catcher for Mobile |
MOBILE, Ala., March 17.—Catcher
Rawson of the Atlanta club’/ was
claimed today on waivers by Man- |
ager Bob Coleman of the Mobile team, ||
Rawson was farmed out to the South
Atlantie lLeague the latter part of
the season,
He was claimed to protect the cludb
in case Fallentine, bought from Salt |
Lake, persists in his refusal to come !
to Mobile. With Bob Higgins to|
handle all Cracker games, Rawson‘
was not needd last season and he was
sent to the Sally League
He hit .311 in that circuit and Man
ager Coleman figures Presgident Lo
gan made a pretty god deal when he
grabbed the ex-Cracker.
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Yussif Hussane'’s
PITTSBURG, March 17.—Joe
Stecher, heavyweight wrestling cham
pion, threw Yussif Hussane, the big
Turk, in 1:35:10 here Tuesday night,
after a titanic struggle! Twelve
times the Turk blocked and evaded
the champion’s famous scissors, but
on the thirteenth trial the champion
managed to prison the Turk’'s body
between his thighs and, reinforcing
the hold with a wrist-lock, subdued
Hussane, who was well nigh ex
hausted, with a minimum of punish
ment,
In the preceding bout, Jim Lon
dos, Greek champion, threw Mort
Henderson, the “Masked Marvel,” in
37:10 with crotch. hold and headlock.
Cards Beat Macks;
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Rookies Show Well
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., March 17—
Branch Rickey is highly elated over the
showing of his recruit pitchers in the
first real game of baseball of 1920, against
the Philadelphia Athletics, played at Mer
cedes, Teéx,, which the Cardinals won,
7 to 6.
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Whitted Loses Game,
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But Clinches a Job
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 17.—George
Whitted will proba¥ly play third base for
the Pirates this scason. Although his
error allowed the Red Sox to win yes
terday's game, 4 to 3, Manager Gibson
liked his work at the hot corner.
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Agrees to Sign at Figure Offered.
Home Run Star Worried Over
His Motherless Children,
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(By Universal Service.)
MIAMI, Fla., March 17.—J. Frank
lin (Home Run) Baker will play third
bdse for the Yankees again this sea
son and will report to Manager Hug
gins at Jacksonville before the teams
start north. Col. T. L. Huston, part
owner of the Yankees, with Col. Ja
cob Ruppert, made the announcement
today. He had stopped over in Bal
timore to meet Baker.
“Baker is perfectly willing to sign
up at the figure we have offered
him,” sald Huston. “He is all the
more desirous of coming back to, the
team, because his relatives favor the
idea, in the expectation that it will
take his thoughts away from the re
cent death of his wife,
“The one thing that worries him
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Lawler Here Has Wonderful
Ring Record. - ;
One of the greatest boxing chams
pions starring in this country is td
appear :n the final bout at Hume Mc+
Donald’s club in Atlanta on the eves
ning of March 23. He is none othee
than Benny Valger, the French featlis
erweight champion, and who recentl“{t
scored decisive victories over Johnn
Kilbane and Joey Fox, the Engufi
featherweizht champion. -
Valger’s opponent wilk be Jack
Lawler, and they will clash in &
ten-round bout. Today Valger is be=
ing considered the real featherweight
champion of the world. His great
victory over Johnny Kilbane ak
Newark two weeks ago proved bes,
yond a doubt that Benny is a wong,
derful little fighter. Previous to taks
ing the measure of . Kilbane thg
French “flash” all but knocked ouf
Joey Fox, the English featherweight .
champlon, in a bout at Newark. =
The sensational French boy is withs
out a word of doubt one of the great+
est feathers ever saen in action im
this country. He proved beyond &
doubt that he carries a knockouz
wallop in both Mmitts when he sen
Jimmy Hill, the Australian feather
weight champion, into slumberland &
few months ago at Boston. Anothes
accomplishment of Valger’s was hig§
knockdown over Johnny Dundee in
their twelye-round contest at Bogz
ton. When Valger scored a knocks
down over Dundee he accompliuhe,‘s‘
a feat that Benny Leonard, the lights
weight champion of the world, an®
Lew Tendler were unable to come
a.rgwhere near doing. :
Ilthough hut a featherweight, Vase
ger goes around the coumtry scoring
decisive victories over the best light=
weights. Joe Jacobs, manager oOf
Valger, claims that the French cham
pion can defeat any man in the world
weighing up to 133 pounds ringside,
and that goes for Benny Inbnar,éf
provided the latter agrees to wei@
133 pounds at ringside. ° ey
Valger's record is one that the best
boxer can be justly proud of. In
cluded among ‘those he has taken
the measure of are sych sterling per
formers as Matt Brock, Frankie Bri
Rocky Kansas, Johnny Dund
Young Chaney, George Chaney, Pete
Hartley, Young Michaels, Joe Tiplitz,
Cal Delaney, Tomnty Touhey, John=
ny Drummie, Frankie Brown, Char«
ley Parker, Tommy Elm, Hareld Fa
rese, Joe Lynch, Alvie Miller Jimm
Murphy, Johnny Kilbane, Joey F%
Harry Carlson, Ralph Brady and oths
ers top numerous to mention. E
Included among those the French
champion has scored knockout vies
tories over such good men as
Jimmy Hill. Gussie Lewis, Eddie
Jackson, Phil Logan, Phinney Boyle,
and scored knockdowns over Artie
Root and Harry Carlson. o
{s the career of his motherless chil
dren, a girl of 8 and a baby boy o!
2. He says he can not and will not
leave them in thegtare of strangers.
As soon as he makes arrangemen
for their proper care by some of
relatives he will join us down heres
And we'll be mighty glad to hag¥e
him back with us.” =
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