Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-06
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

Gandll who was fined $40 for smoking
Cigarettes by Manager Lush, had to come
. through with an apology and to pay q
fine Of SO, And now he goes to the Bos-
ton Braves.
couple OF weeks ago Atlanta could
have bought Glenn Liebhardt cheap. Now
he has gone and pitched a chit game
for COLUMBUS and is off the market
Probably, though, if Atlanta had bought
him he would never have pitched another
good one, That has been Atlantas luck
lately with veteran pitchers.
Brooklyn has turned Eddie Dent over to
Newark
n,J Joe M s,5; is fayoripg an enact
recurring that all leagues start their sea
sons then
after May Is they will owe the New
Orleans club 81 600 which is the balance
due on the deal, President Ward says
they VIII keep Hess-which may be so
Doc Johnston, Pelican frstbaseman.
who made such loud noise during the
training season, is showing a terrible
weakness on low thrown balls and will
hardly be kept if better man can be
found. Another down, and a harder
The unusually rainy spring has started
the magnates to talking again about TAX
ing out insurance to protect them against
rain on Saturday and Sunday. There
Is company that will take the business
but the premium asked is higher than
the baseball folks like TO pay
Bugs Raymond is in such bad shape
that ne can't even stick through one
game in the feeble United States league.
The recent poor fielding of Derrill
Pratt is explained BY an injured anger,
with his right thumb and it has been as
big as two thumbs ever since.
Robbers recently blew the safe al the
St. Paul ball park-and got nothing
safe
Arthur Devln is getting try-out at
short for the Braves.
sheld9n Lejeune, nov playing with
for his club last week. He made four
hits, scored three times himself and bat
ted in something like a half-dozen other
runs.
Harry storch, a natural right-hand hit
ter chat is, If he's hitter at ALI has
switched to left-handed and is doing bet
ter
Callahan will not let Joe Benz, his new
pitGher argue ar 9e. With n mp He took
.
doing II Cal" likes an argument But
he has found out that Benz rattes him
self every time he has a run-in with the
jumps, so he has a standing rule that any
time Benz starts anything with an UNI
pire. out he comes.
Joe Wilkes, former Cracker infielder. is
trying for a position on the Davenport
club
Johnny Beahl Of the Denver club, re-
Gently knocked two home runs in one
inning in a game with Wichita
Hank ODay has not yet settled in his
mind whether to use Benton or Suggs in
the opening game of the worlds series
"Sly Jack Coveny is catching for the
Spartanburg club this year
Dr. William d. Scanlon, erstwhile
Brooklyn pitcher, hasn't had any offers
from the Philles yet, though President
being fter him. Scanlon is making
money at his practice of medicine and
has stopped worrying about baseball
The National league moguls have about
agreed that they are starting the baseball
season too early. But some of them think
they ought to run il later in the fall
while others admit that late fall games
are as foolish as early spring contests
Some baseball expert, on reading the
statement that Gainor, Of Detroit was
one OF the three best first basemen in
the business remarked "Daubert Chase
Mclnnes, konetchy and Merkle must be
the other tue