The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-24
JORDAN Is AFTER
 MORE PITCHERS
Some of the Old Force May ;. Not Return This Season
HIGHER SALARIES WAN TED
Two Pitchers From the South Atlantic Will Be Tried By Jordan-South- ern Leaguers Are Watching
 Pete Listers Career.

Atlanta, January s-(special. )-Mana- ger Otto Jordan of the Atlanta team is going out for more pitchers.
 This might seem foolish at first blush. For consider what Atlanta returns in the way of pitchers:
 Harry Johns, who led the league last year with 20 games won and lost.
 Tom Fisher, who was second with 20 won and 8 lost.
 Bill Bartley, who landed sixth (and played part of the season with New Orleans at that.
 Likewise, in all probability, Tommy Att kins, last year the fifth Southern league twirler.
 But maybe there is an explanation of Otto's apparently foolish procedure in the fact that some of these men may not return.
 If the truth must be told, as there is no harm in telling it. now that every body has reformed, Atlanta was paying most staggering salaries to Fisher, Bart ley and Johns and no small sum to Frank Atkins. With a salary limit really in force It has been necessary to make slight cuts in several cases and there has been a hint abroad in the land that the pitch CTS did not all escape. Now last year, in the face of fat advances in salary, Tom Fisher emitted a gentle "holler" and Harry Johns had the peeves for six weeks before they would come across with signatures.
 And what we have been leading up to all this time is that some of these old timers may not report. Of course, they probably will and all that. but still they don't have to if they don't want to and may be they won't.
 Take Tom Fisher. He has a good busi- hess up in that busy town of Anderson Ind He doesn't have to pitch unless he wants to. More than that he is not as young as he was when they sent him up from the Southern league to the Bos- ton Nationals. and he may want to get out gracefully. He is good right now, but he is wise enough to know that it is not for always. And maybe he will try to beat the finish to 1t.
 Bartley is in the same fix. He is no
 
 to death if he is suspended The same is true of Harry Johns. And Harry sure does love that old salary. If he can get out of 1t he is not coming to Atlanta for any less and he would like more
 Of course, nobody pretends to say that Johns is being asked to take less. The Atlanta team will get along on 13 men and spread that little old $S2O0 as thin as possible. But Jordan Is out after young and cheap pitchers and the fact is sug- gestive.
 Of course Atlanta gets two pretty nifty youngsters from the South Atlantic and has signed good semi-professional, but despite that fact Jordan wouldn't be above signing couple more for trials.
 The two men coming from the South Atlantic are John Griffin and Demaree
 Griffin was dug out of the Texas league by Bill Smith and brought to Atlanta for trial last spring. He looked extremely good and there were many who thought that he had not had a really fair trial when he was sent to Augusta. With that often demoralized club he won 13 games lost and tied l. He did not star as a fielder or batter but looked all the season to be peculiarly reliable pitcher with 8 maryelously unreliable team
 Demaree started out with Savannah last year and just at the finish was secured by Chattanooga to play the champion ship series against Augusta and Atlanta In both of which he performed with cred 1t and renown. With club that couldn't get better than fourth place on two tries he won IS, lost II and tied 1 game. fin- ishing eighth among the Sally league per- formers It is a peculiar fact that three of the men who finished ahead of him of1fo fafC IL ma and Mckenzie, and the two others were ex-Southerners-Clark. once of Bir- mingham, and Gaskill, who started his Class performances with Shreveport
 The other youngster already secured by Atlanta is New Orleans semi-pro in whom no dependence is placed.
 So, just to be on the safe side, Att lanta will get another pitcher or two.
 Up in Cleveland they are worrying themselves pink over the fear that Pete Lister will repeat the Claud Rossman act. Claud, as you may remember, was passed up by Cleveland, went to Detroit and for two years helped nightly in the many trouncings that the Tigers gave the Maps.
 Now comes Pete Lister. Pete, back in 1907, started the season with Birmingham but they couldn't see him there Con &C., count of the smoke, maybe, and he was SOlQ 10 NdSnVlHe. Inere he proved the league sensation and Cleveland gobbled him.
 Up In the Big, fast game Lister did not shine and he was shunted back to the Toledo team, the graveyard of many a good Southern player. He and Manager Fred Abbott didn't like each other very well there and as Abbott was the boss he told Lister what to do about 1t, Lis ter following directions and landing in Williamsport, Pa, club of the once wild and savage Tri-State league. Right in that burg Lister experienced a re- crudescence, which. ia plain baseball means that he busted out again." He batted $50, fielded .982 and was again the Pete Lister of Nashville days. So, along comes Hughie Jennings and grabs him and now Pete will try out under the maker of champions If Jennings makes a big .leaguer out of him they will feel mighty sick over in Cleveland And cer- tainly Jennings has made ball play CTS out of considerably less hopeful ma teria1.
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