Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-24
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addition to the Baron team that
made a pennant possible Without
Almeidas batting the Barons would
hardly have finished better than
third.
Since o. b. Andrews has had the
Chattanooga club he 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 IL has been a shade
worse than fifth. But if he sticks
at it long enough and if he will be
content to sign the checks and to let
the managers manage, he viii begin
to make a showing.
NOV, 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 key Of
money. going further over the sal
airy limit than any Southern league
club ever went. before or since. The
money was injudiciously 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
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
l90S 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 a good race with a
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 triedD
1t takes money to buy winners,
however, and Mobile isn't given to
spending money for baseball
The Montgomery club has been
an ln~and-outer. Some year money
has been spent for it, More often
II has not, The hackers of the club
have found, TO their not inconsid-
cradle sorrow, that the Montgom-
eNites win not support a winning
team And now the franchise is
on the market II the team goes TO
Little Rock it will be steady
luser for they don't believe In
spending money for bali clubs over
in that burg
Nashville is another town which
1871 Z fANttl4th 10 tH We a NluD UlAklA
something is done to ease a little
money out OF the pocletbooks Of
The baseball folks Back In 1908.
a year OF miracles which found
Memphis third, Montgomery fourth,
Mobile NTH. Atlanta sixth and
Birmingham last. Nashville won
pennant Bill Bernard did it
with a cheap team. How he did
it nobody pretends to say The
next year the 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 superlatively good
managing OF Bill schwartz. Some
day they VIII wake up To them
selves in that town and spend
some money When they DO. they
win discover that its good ball
town and deserves every cent they
spent on IT,
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