Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
BY Percy II. Whiting.

there was the usual response. A
hundred OF more young men turned
out-and one little boy The boy
was a clean cut little shaver, in
short pants, about the size OF a
half grown bat boy.
when Coach Heisman looked
them over he saw the mskings OF a
fine team-and he also noted the
hid
-9hcps be doesn't get IN tho way
end SGT hurt. III have TO eliminate
atm at the nrst CUT was Coach
Hsts<n3uas comment
Tn@n followed = bot OF indoor
WAnF& For days tho candidates
Ssuskcd a. best Shsy could in the
SuesxsSAsd space OF TIA gymnasium,
A0En9 szzch s1nan GhinG1 IN the
Aasebsgl Tina as the scan4 room
a91uEAeA
Rpn@n Elss ono nrr ei1@ fRrst cut
saaza CnAch HAaeunan welded the
suzfnw knt6S with FeclSAens abanr
AezA - Csusa. But when he came
40 tA~n&Gns OF the Aid ne didn't
80 q
FN.@zmwU1 .@as.Srma Duv work m
GO eDanP was fTiB comment
@no&n@w -czrt cams. And than SflS
Enad On@
Whgn OzSs1xw& game was played
IN Arnz41es4 snan en- the squad was
90 @hOVfsAOp he had shown such
S,E1z1r&Ss 6sSI4ds fux osSsbai that
has bad stuck through
Ts1S nsn1S cfths boy was Tommy
hsrnnrAn.
Nov. Tommy Macmillan was I'M
~ dosEbtedly GbS very nttlsst boy
who ever got ON a real varsity
team in the South He won his
place because be could bat fairly
wen. because hs cooAd Maid excsl-
lently. and most particularly be-
cause he had a baseball mind.
Mcmillan has" says Coach
Heisman, who perhaps knows him
better than any other man, that
rare faculty OF knowing whore a
ball is going to be htt. He seerns
10 give the matter no thought. No
doubt he divines the. thing by the
working Of his subconscious mind.
Given n batter he knows and given
some hint of what is 10 DO pitched
to him and he can come nearer 10
telling where II L. going TO be hit
than any living man who has ever
come under my observation"
Ut lie this faculty that has given
Mcmillan positions ON Tires big
league teams and that has made
him, with the sole and gLowtnsly
brilliant exception OF wu1te RASler,
the SSsuake~t bali player OF his
inches who ever Srsoed q diamond
r lid 0@nnrty Of 6Dow7nw vher~
O. DGn wac eu0ns TO DO nft WIS
MD1n1uAEfS mort Troublesome weak
D@mw @a frxt When he figured out
Sn@s Eh~ sphsze was GUtng - be hit
h@ew~sn ffSwa and secUrd he O1dn't
Aasaezh~ 81 an TO nm oVsr back
81 EhS paeuNsr and take II away
ARnxu Ehe @neond b@sSnnan
Ard SfrAs peculiarly irx4t~tud the
SECOND b@gernnn.-4w4o wua tho
yasR NOMINAL bsoke IN, that sx-
c&93sn4 pcrforneT Bred Richardson.
70 took al OF Richardson's patience
aaza an OF CossCh He1sulau's author
~ 60 combine McMula1Ts activities
no - territory about twice as large
80 e1y ether shoFtstop n the
SoS1bcrn coasSge world covered.
And 10 this day he can come as
n@@x no playing Shs entire tnf1eld
urEaeststed &s anybody you ever
R@w.
lust how 6in1fnuttv~ Mcmillan
) was in his first year Is hard 10
realize. Coach Hsisnan estimates
tsat a. the time he vas probably
five feet, i've inches tail and that
he weighed perhaps ITO to 116
pounds.
How young he was m best illus
trated by a story told by one Of
his team mates that year
The Tech team was of on trip
It doesn't matter particularly
where. and after a game the boys
went out for an evening at a girls
college.