Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-19
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

usamons News and Gossip |
! New York writer says that not since
bs nae Gays ; o. amos Rusie have the Giants
PLAYED the ability to work every other
gay. Guess said scribe never heard of
zoe McGinnity. who often worked two
| Gays running and just as often pitched
two full games in an afternoon.
Molesworth is digging around the ma
!or que cities, trying to land some ma
'eriai Tor the 1913 Barons,
Mobile and Memphis did not lose man
| In case Yantz doesn't make good with
the Browns next spring he will be turned
back to the Barons.
Clarke Griffith is giving Clyde Milan's
younger brother, Horace, a try-out
t 1oung Milan failed to make good with
ster is an outfielder
|
Two Washington semi-pro youngsters
named Buck Barton and Dutch MUNICH
are going to be given a try-out by Grit
| fifth
| Eddie Ainsmth is in Washington hos
pital, suffering from bad cold,
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The Newark club, of the International
league, will be placed on the market for
the highest bidder October l.
| The Jersey City club is said to be for
The Dodgers have secured Outhelder
Leo Callahan, from the Elmira team, of
claims he separated himself from $4,000
for this bird,
Ebbetts, has. also signed Gus Getz, a
| third sacker, from Elmra. Getz is not
to report until spring.
Jake stahl believes he has find"
| in Pitcher Van Dyke, secured from Jesse
Burkett's Worcester club, of the New
! England league.
President Lynch, OF the National league,
| has exercised his option TO select an UNI
pire from the International league. His
| choice is Guthrie, whose release has been
| purchased. The new ump will report next
| spring.
Jerry Downs says he has learned
more baseball this year under Frank
Chance than in all the previous years
put together
There are pitchers and pitchers, but for
| fantastic floats and infinite variety among
dry ball pitchers, commend us to Rucker
And part of Maps rise is due to his drop
Don't joke about Oshkosh any more, for
| that burg has landed the pennant in the
Wisconsin Illinois league. And Harold
Hangover was not with the team this
year, either.
the Maps Here's hoping he wins his
seventeenth straight:
Frank Chance has informed New York
! hot ha will ha
ball this fall We take it with grain
of salt
Chance says that Joe Tinker will be
1t is said that Harry Ables,. former
Southern psen nov with Oakland tSa or Of
pitcher whose hand is big enough to
completely conceal a baseball
The Yankees have signed three play
ers from the Herrin, H., team. They
are Bradshaw, Poulker and Miller.
No wonder Cincinnati scribes have let
been travelling at $50 clip the past
month.
With Hughey jennings under suspen-
| sion. groundkeepers are a happy lot.
The grass will have a chance 10 sprout
| around the coaching lines
Hank Perry, who led the International
| league in clouting last year, took an aw-
| full Brodie this season. He has been
released by the Providence club.
Don't be surprised If you read this
about October 10: With the bases choked
Iris Speaker slammed the pellet to the
center field fence for home. run Nc
Graw, white with with anger ordered M Mar r.
exultation when Big jeff Tesreau scaled
the peak to have his first chance in the
series. And Mathewsonn-
Washington is resting in second place
today as a result of their double win
| yesterday over the Browns, while the
| Athletics were dividing with the White
Sox.
Connie Mack's Christmas gift to Chief
Bender, so says Philadelphia scribe;
| will be a brochure called The Rise and
Fall of Louis Sockalexis."
Bill McKechnie; former Pirate. gets
back in the big show; The Boston Ma
| tionais have secured him from st. Paul.
Boston scribe. having watched Math-
ewson lose to the Cubs last Monday, says
big 81. VIII De said pen HT does
think McGraw will pitch Matty against
Wood in the opener.
The Boston Nationals have released
| Third Baseman Eddie Mcdonald to the
| Sacramento club, OF the Pacific Coast
| league. But Mcdonald refuses to go so
far West: He probably never heard OF
| Horace Greeley.
Barney Dreyfuss is reported to have
| said that he intends to trade Catcher
| George Gibson to St Paul Listens like
loose talk to us
Rochester will train at Admission, Ala,
next spring
Many Driven From Home.
Every year, in many parts of the