Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-01
By Fuzzy Woodruff.

u EMEMBER. gentle reader,
IN those halycon days of your
youth when it was the
bounding desire of your heart of
hearts to hurt some one? Remem-
Der now, when prompted by that
desire YOU visited the county fair,
the joys of 10 10, Princess Zoo Zoo
and the Bevy of Beloochistan
Beauties were counted as naught
and you even foreswore your pre-
objection for wagering your hard
earned savings on the chances of
an animal with a pedigree as long
as that Of the House of Hapsburg?
Remember the keen elation with
which you paid out five cents for
three throws at the elusive head of
a Senegambian, who had suddenly
attained new eminence by trans
ferring his activities from toting
grips at the depot to standing be-
mind a screen with a duck pond
painted on it and tauntingly invit-
Ing the body polite to do damage
to his Uranium?
You had known this negro all
your life and not until 1t cost five
cents for three opportunities for
YOU to break his skull had you ever
seen your keenest joy rest in the
prospect of Draining him.
But now, at five cents for three
throws, there was nothing else on
earth worthy of being done. 10 10
might bark from his canine physi-
ognomv. Zoo Zoo might tell you
that you were about to take a long
journey. The entire Bevy of Be
loochistan Beauties might shock
you with all the writing motions
of Gertrude Hoffman, Mary Gar
den, Eva Tanguay and the thou
sand and other Salomes, The
pedigreed horse could pace for
Sweeney or the rest of the Ancient
Order Of Hibernians. Your ambi-
ton was to castigate the counte-
nance of the coon with baseball a
three throws for FIVE
A Regular AFRICAN Dodger."
The artful lodging of the dinge
that kept his skull immune from
your projectiles was a thing to be
admired, but never in your long life
did you imagine that this same
lodging ability was responsible for
certainly the most consistent bat
ter the Southern league ever knew,
probably one of the most scientific
hitters the national pastime has
seen.
Now. I am not seeking to de-
prive Mr.. Mack of his fame Of be
Ing the Michaeveli of baseball. 1t
Is not my purpose to assume Ma
poleonic pose and tell Mr.. McGrav
things that he has left undone in
running his gang of athletes. nor
would | attempt to say that | could
have operated the last world series
to greater glories than did Mr..
Stahl.
Still ] wish to go on record right
now as making affidavit that in
these days when the pinch hitter is
as valuable an asset as a prize
pitcher, major league managers
overlooked bets for many years bv
letting one c. Wordsworth stay in
the Southern league to make things
miserable for Southern pitchers.
And Mr.. Wordsworth did this bv
his unerring ability to yank his
head out Of the way of a fast
thrown ball, hurled with the ex-
press idea OF shattering his brain
or making him pull away from the
plate
Had Great Batting Record.
In maJ>r and minor leagues for
seventeen years Wordsworth had a
general batting average of .317. and
he never for a second cared what
kind of a pitcher was working
against him. He would Just as
soon hit Mathewson as the newest
recruit the South Atlantic league
ever possessed.
To Southern league fans the