Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-24
Crackers, Pelicans, LookoutS
AndBarons VIII Bein Pennant
Hunt in'13; TheySpentMoney

addition 10 the Baron team that
made pennant possible. Without
Almeida's batting the Barons would
hardly have finished better than
third.
Since Q. r. Andrews has had the
Chattanooga club, ne has shown
himself a good spender And thus
far it hasn't netted him anything
The average standing of the club
since he has had it has been a shade
worse than fifth But If he sticks
at 1t long enough and il he will be
content TO sign the checks and to let
the managers manage. he will begin
to make showing
NOW, consider the case Of Mem
~ phis. Back in the old days a
game lot Of spenders owned the
club. And after two failures it won
the pennants of 1903 and 1904 The
following year the hackers, under
the direction of Lew Whistler, went
the limit They spent a keg Of
money, going further over the sal
airy limit than any Southern league
club ever went, before or since. The
money was iniudiciously spent.
however. and the Ministers did
not even get in the first division.
Then the old hackers. sore at this
fact and wearied OF fight with the
papers, sold out. Since President
Coleman has been in charge the
money does not appear to have
' been laVished on the team Every
body speaks of Mr.. Coleman as q
good spender and all that. But the
team doesn't show it, He has a
good manager. He has the same
chances at a lot of players that
other managers do, But he doesn't
get them, In consequence. the Tur-
, ties haven't been in the race since
1908, and never viii be again until
< some money is turned loose
The Mobile team, under the wise
! direction of Mike Finn, pulled one
of those occasional miracles last
year and made good race with a y
cheap team. 1t Is done now and
then. Firms affiliations with the
Giants helped him. In the long run.
however, the Mobile team will not
be heard from often The city is
small. the baseball owners are not
good spenders. and YOU can't make
bricks without straw Cor at least
they say YOU can't. / never tried.l
1t takes money to buy winners.
E however. and Mobile isn't given to
spending money for baseball.
The Montgomery club has been
an inland outer. Some year money
has been spent for it, More often
it has not. The hackers OF the club
have found TO their not inconsid-
cradle sorrow, that the Montgom-
oryites will not support a winning
team. And now the franchise is
ON the market. II the team goes to
Little Rock, it will be a steady
p loser for they don't believe i'm
spending money for bah clubs over
in that burg.
Nashville is another town which
ISN'T destined to have a club until
something is done to ease a little
money out OF the pocketboolls of
the baseball folks Back I'm 1908.
year Of miracles which found
Memphis third Montgomery fourth.
Mobile dfJh. Atlanta sixth and
Birmneham last. Nashville won
So remnant BU Bernard did it
with a cheap team. How he did
# nobody pretends TO say The
next year he Nashville team made
good race with cheap team.
The last two years it has NOT been
dangerous and owed what little life
il showed TO the superlativeN good
managing ~ Bin schwartz Some
day they win wake up 10 them
selves i'm that town and spend
some money When they do they
nil discover chat it's a good ball
town and deserves every cent they
spent ON it
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