Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-19
By Percy H. Whiting.
TX TINNING baseball games is
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Wv partly a matter of pitch
ing and hits and partly
state of mind You can know as
little about psychology as dog
about doggerel and stll have pref
~ clear bunch that when a team
gets the winning bug in its bonnet
It's hard to beat and that If It
gets in 2 losing notion IT can't win.
just merely for clubbing en- away.
Look Al the cases in point
Washington and Atlanta
The Senators have about as much
license 10 be winning umpsteen in
a row as a 9oo-to-1 shot has Of
winning a race, only less
Why, drat that team, it ought to
go to a lunatic asylum, en- masse.
as It were Just for the crazy way
It is "gooing" up the American
league race.
Look at the team It's virtually
the same old collection of misfts
that has been the laughing stock of
civilized baseball for years Look
at the pitching staff Walter John
SON and collection of eleventh
raters Look at the manager. Griz-
zlv old Clark Grif1th. who hasn't
been able ia create even faint
hutter in either league since Jack
Chesbro was a kid and goodness
knows that was several years back.
What's the matter with Wash
ington?
There isn't but one answer Gone
plumb crazy
They have got into winning no
ton They've hit streak They
can't lose for winning The old
psychology stun is getting in It's
deadly work They think they are
winners Normally it would be
bum think but they are getting
away with II. And once let team
Of one legged men get to thinking
that nobody can heat them and
they are likely to win a worlds
championship
| ~ r Atlanta team IS playing the
same shot with a reverse Eng
lsh. is hooking instead Of slicing
this Psychology stuff, as n were.
They are obsessed With the losing
habit and can't seem to shake it
Off
II would take a thousand years to
convince me that there isn't win
ming combination in the PLAYERS
Hemphir has on hand Its a FIRST
division ball club right TODAY.
The addition Of Russell and Bra
dy has strengthened the pitching
STAFF, provided the last games
pitched by the pair are 10 he taken
q S 2 criterion Dessau. Sittou and
Atkins Win win three quarters Of
their games with fighting. zippv,
confident team behind them Hemp
hin is bound 70 he bile tn work
ont a good inheld from the mate
rial on hand The outheld Is strong.
especially now that Dave Callahan
seems 70 have got his stride
All the Crackers need now Is
little Of that hop stuff that started
or the Washington club on It's mad
career II the PLAYERS can recover
from their Crouch, get q little con
Adence and get in the winning spir-
il. there win be nothing more to it.
THE Southern league racers are
nearing the half pole And rs
q great struggle ANY time the
hed is punched SO IL can he COW
cred with 200 point blanket
there's a race in progress Here is
how the contest in the Southern
sizes m
Birmingham 49, Running nicely.
with Jockey Nolesworth riding as
II each post we're his last one
Couldn't do any better under pun
iShmert II an depends on the rest
~ The field II anything challenges
loud there will be no answer
MOBILIZE hon" horse. running
strictly on the tea When the
done dies out good night. Has
wise jockey who IS riding as though
he feared his horse would die under
him
New Orleans-Under whip and
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