Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-04
By Percy II. Whiting.

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wv for baseball candidates in
the spring Of 1904 at the
Georgia Institute Of Technology,
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 Heismsn looked
them over he saw the malings of a
hns teem-and he also noted the
lid
= hope hs doesn't get m tho way
end sst hurt. RI have TO eftmiuats
E2m at The n1vt CUT was Coeoh
AxSisRnn1'B oomnenG
whsn Eoil0wcd = hot OF indoor
m\vz. For days thu candidates
Sa\sNsd - best Ghsy ccuid in tho
ypsn ,r1CAnd space Of the gymnasium,
Anan,V @uch small Things in the
AAset\Ef INN 90 the scau4 room
aTUrd\A
ummn o. ~Gn aetErn&u wseadod tho
swEuzHng \ u46s with FsclzAaas aban-
AaaA ~ al xs1. But whan he oame
~ ~ nah - o4 tbs lEid M didn't
nsa n
S&u~wm N@nS Sn@H boy iwur4s m
0aM npenP WAw f1s comment
&nSthss outA cams. And than tho
dnMi SnA
sNheu Ense 6xuA' game wRs played
6fD sEn&1anst man ON tho squad was
- ahcSGnaCp he had ,f1own suoh
a Nos6ffNs gsu1us koS be Ssbal1 that
hM bad stuck through
T1Se name cf,ths boy-Was Tommy
MACMILLAN
kOw, Tommy ntrMiIla y was I'M
dosEbtsdly the very ltt1est boy
who ever got ON q re- 81 varsity
team IN tOe South He won HE
place because ho could bat fairly
wen, because he oOud "a I'D encel-
lently, and most partHou larly be-
cause he had a baseball bind.
Mcmillan has" say , Coach
Heismsn. who perhaps Sh0wB him
better than any other II IAN, that
rare faculty OF knowing whore
bah is going to be hit. He seems
10 give the matter no tho ngfrt. No
doubt he divines the thing by the
Working OF his subconsciDus mind.
Given a batter he knows fInd given
some hint of what is to bs pitched
10 him and he can come nearer to
telling where Il Is going 10 be hit
than any living man who has ever
come under my observation.
1t is this faculty that has given
MCMILLAN Positions on thTss big
league teams and that has made
him. with the sole end EAowtnsiy
brilliant exception OF wII1ks Ka@iar
the greatest BAN psayeR Of his
inches who ever GTaoed q diamond
THE nAnnrty Of 1nOwanw where
@.ba1I was @uenw TO Do hit was
1nSn6XnanAs most Troublesome veaS-
n@zB 80 ffxst When hO figured out
Sts@e she sphsEo Yves epsng 20 be hit
bsewaeSn 6rys and aeoand ne DIDN'T
ha@1SmA@ 81 an % rm Owsr back
81 DO psknhsr arh tAlos n away
AAnzn a. @ocond b&seumAn
And ttrts peculiarly isS4t~tcd the
@woond baSsmsn--w4lp was, the
Esakx HTcATHlan broke IN, that sx-
ans1ena prrnorrAsr Fred Richardson.
u tno& al OF Richardso1TB patience
ard an OF Coach Heismar's author
kky 20 oDrr1ne McMnlszTs activities
be- q territory about twice as largo
~ ez1y CtheT sh0Ftsoop m the
Southern college, world covered.
And % this day ne can como as
nemx Go playing Ells entire frrfHrld
unmssiGted @s anybody you ever
saw.
YUET how dinIfnuttve Mcmillan
J was IN BIS ffrEt year rs hard 20
reeiize. Coach Heisrnan estimates
thas at the time he Was probably
five feet, I'VE inches tar and that
he weighed perhaps ITO 10 115
pounds.
How young he was rs best Illus
trated by 8 story told by one or
his team mates that year.
The Tech team was Off on TIP.
It doesn't matter particularly
where. and after a game the boys
went out for an evening at a girls
college
Tommy was the first man home
and he was particularly glum,
What's the matter?' he was
asked on his return.
Jaw. those girls make me tired
said Tommy
He was pressed for particulars
why, conround it, said Tom
my zone of 'em wanted to kiss
me"
Whereupon he went Indignantly
10 bed
TOMMY required world Of
coaching -anc ne got it, Final
ly. by agreeing 20 let him play two
or three extra innings after the
game was over AN 10y himself they
got him confined inside normal
territory. And after that he began
to elec,dU the college world with
his performances