Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-25
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

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Muggsy McGrsw will get SO, 900 a week
| for his vaudeville actor anyhow the
press agent says he will. Personally we'd
give large, slick lead dime to see Mugg-
| sly in monologue.
The White sox players received more
than $500 each for winning the Chicago
| city series.
Mordecai Brown Will be advertised next
year as the best three fingered pitcher
alive.
1t has been determined that anybody
can become successful National league
| president who can give all eight clubs the
! best of II, while at the same time giving
all seven opponents the worst of it,
Herman Schaefer's engagement with
the Washington club as clown has ex-
pired. Next year he will either manage
the Sacramento team or else scout for
the Senators-and a bad deal 1t is, either
way.
The magnates will now play baseball all
winter-at the Waldorf.
Fogel's attack on President Lynch
makes his reelection absolutely certain.
Horace Fogel says he will sell the Phila-
delphia team for q cool milion-but it
must be cool Considering that Horace
didn't invest anything in the team origi-
nally except postage stamps he might
make fair profit out of 1T.
GAINESVILLE is out of the Central league
and out of baseball You couldn't interest
that town in team if you gave it a big
league franchise and threw in the team
and money to run it.
The Louisville club is on the market
and drug on the market at that. 1t Is
said Barney Dreyfuss made an offer for
it. but not enough to interest the present
owners.
Larry Gardner has the ball that was
used in the deciding play of the deciding
game AT Fenway park in the world S
series. Meyers was the last player who
handled it, but he didn't care to preserve
1t as q souvenir.
The slump of Gabby Street was rocket
like Only few years back lot OF
catchers in the American league Last
year Washington traded him to New
York. Later the Yanks sent him TO the
Internatio league He lasted less than
Southern In 1914 it may be the South
Atlantic,
George Mcbride started West to spend
his winter hunting near Clark Griffith
ranch. He got as far as Milwaukee,
where he settled for the winter.
One of the first requests the baseball
players union will make, according TO
press dispatches. is that umpires be vested
with power to order out Of the grounds
abusive spectators. When you come to
think of it, that's reasonable enough. The
Joke is. however, that they've had that
power for years,
Ten years hence there viii be no more
abus sing Of ball players by fans than there
is now abusing of actors by people in
this audience.
They are now digging up the fact in
Cincinnati that any how. O'Day managed
to pull the Reds through two pegs higher
this year than they were last year
Frank Chance is through with Murphy
and Murphy is through with Chance and
Evers is the goat.
Fred Clarke has announced that he ex-
poets to start next season with the same
lineup he used last Pretty fair lineup
too. but not quite good enough to win
Wouldn't it be awful for Barney II Hans
Wagner started the slump that must now
be so near.
The St. Paul team is looking for man
ager.
Fame is a queer thing. A Milwaukee
paper writes up old ICY" Young as Ben
ton 7. Young.
Well. anyhow, the Cubs beat MICHIGAN
City the Nother day, right after they lost
the city series.
Frank Chance may team up with Jim
Jeffries in running big amusement mark
somewhere near Los Angeles. The Team
less Leader is considering the offer made
him by Jeff's representative
Joe Wood and iris Speaker will soon
go TO Nashville and will stay there
while with friends. They will then 20
duck shooting over al famous ReeIfoot
lake