The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-14
ANCIENT HISTORY VERY WELL
TOLD
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from the bleachers when he reacE.I
out after one. But Jim had an or
day hat day on his batting he only
| got three home runs in the two gam,
and stood responsible for four OF tho
five runs that the old patriots go;
that day. That's where Jim was in
those days. He's a IN tn.
Sally League now.
Another one OF the youngsters o..
hat aggregation was George SucE~.
a product Of kinston and Oak Ride
George ave promise of some major
league twirling; he went TO Memphf~
later, in the Southern League, an
then to Detroit inthe American ana
was making good up there until tn
girls began to say that George wa
just too cute for anything and sup
pose George got to believing the con
himself and Hughey Jennings called
him. TOLD him nix onthe skirts. hut
George just couldn't break away
from the Ten-Cent store and Jennings
as Grantland Rice says, tied a can
to him about the size of Lookout
Mountain. Clark Griffith picked him
up and now he is some punkins with
the Cincinnati Reds.
Then there was Tony Walters. call
ed in those days The Southpaw Boy
Wonder" Ton got as hig as class
A and came back down last year and
the year before to the Carolina A.
ISOLATION and was away above tho
average but he too is doomed to be
a has-been in the baseball han Of
fame. Tony finishes his course in
dentistry in a Baltimore college next
spring and he says be will spend thu
balance of his days looking down i'm
the mouth (Joke.)
These are three Of the ones OF tha
old days of Brandt and Kelly.
Baseball Jagged a season or two and
then when North Carolina was called
on to participate again in organized
baseball, Greensboro was in the run
ming and Brandt was there to do the
running again. They entered with q
vim into the VirginiaCarolina League.
but that league was shortliVed and
again We had a season off. When
the present Carolina Association was
formed Brandt was among the head
liners and this time he was the imam
behind at Greensboro. He dug up
Pop Mckevitt, and for two seasons
the rag hung Owe the patriots camp.
Brandt then announced that he must
sever his connection with the game
ana be an innocent ~byStander. H.
and Greensboro severed her
self with the misunderstanding streak
one and the same time. The team
'Wobbly' toward the last OF the
III dSdlI tie demand came
tor Brandt. Brandt came clean and
took her over and now he says Look
OUT He's started already and there
isn't any telling where hell stop.
He thought toward the first of Jan
uary that he a signed Otis stocks
dale for manager. but he missed his
connection and Lynchburg Of the yir-
slnia League landed Stock. Brandt
lrIed to hold ~Stocksdale to d contract
he thought he had. but the Ma
.lonal Association officials decided
against him.
'Ihe magnate got busy and pur-
;nased frank Doyle from the Roam
oke team in the Virginia League or
asst year, and Doyle will guide tho,
PATRIOTS to victory or to death in tin,
coming season.
New, young blood said Mr..
oianut IN q conversation recently, il
o De the stunt this season with as
nave passed on releases already to
suisse, Walters, Hicks and Hammers
ey OF last years team, and I'm not
aging ANYTHING about who the young
'ters Will be this season. But just
tnem We'll be there when tn,
5OlS flnSS in the SDriDo,