Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-14
DOBBS' CLUB
HERE FOR 3
WITH LOCALS
These Will Be Last Games at
Home for Long Time-Team
Takes Hard Trip.
BY Percy II. Whiting.

TINE Montgomery Bnlikens, who
can pull better baseball than
they can trades will be here
this afternoon for a ball game. It
will be the first Of three game Sc
ries that winds up the home stay OF
the Crackers.
The Bills are dangerous ball club
Their pitchers are exceptionally good
All this season the Bills have been
a wonder-when they were winning
Let them get off with a couple OF runs
lead and they had all the pep In the
world. But they don't play much Of
ar uphill ball game. At that they
have won much more than their share
and are about due a trimming.
A FTER the Crackers leave there
- viii be a long dry spell for the
fans. Barring one little, miserable
series there will be no games at
Poncey until August a.
The hardest test the Crackers must
face will come from now until then.
If Smiths club can hold itself up
somewhere In the first division, not
too far back Of the leaders. il will
have easy sailing for the rest Of the
season. II Il can not-good night.
IT has been our intention for sew
L eral years to present the fans OF
Atlanta with an All-Bug team picked
from the star involuntary comedians
Of the Southern League. but we have
not been able to piece it out
The nearest we can come TO IT is
Catchers-Ed Lauzon and Lee Gar
vim
Pitchers-Bugs Raymond and
George Cradle.
Infielder-Tacks PARROT, first base
Outhelder- Bob Wallace
Numerically that's weak all-bug
team. but otherwise it's there-very
strong
A COUPLE Of Southerners are the
~ worst error makers Of the ST
Louis clubs. Ivey Wingo leads the
Cards in pulling hobbies. while Der
rill Pratt is the star miscue maker
of the Browns.
Both Of them are hitting the bail
hard enough, however 20 offset few
errors.
LEW present day fans can remem-
Der when Bobby Byrne of the
Pirates. played with Shreveport Even
less recall that he was a catcher
when he broke into the Southern.
Bobby Gilks speedily made a third
baseman Of him. But II was largely
his performance as a catcher that got
him In the big leagues.
Byrne's work at Shreveport attract
ed the attention of friends OF Me
Closky. who had the Cardinals, and
he sent a scout down TO look Bobby
over Bob had met with an accident
which deprived him Of the free use Of
his legs, and he had one finger in
bandage but IL happened that when
the scout arrived the Shreveport
catcher had a wooden arm and was
unable 10 stop the pilfering OF bases
by the opposing club The manager
asked Byrne II he felt that he could
replace him. Bobby replied that he
could not move without suffering ex-
CIRCULATING pain, but that his arm was
good and he could stop the base
stealing So he was substituted for
the catcher who was on the blink
When the Cardinal scout saw the
condition Bobby was in and coupled II
up with the excellent game he caught
he concluded that Byrne had the
stun in him out OF which major
league ball players are made. and he
signed him. Bobby's subsequent ca
reer is familiar TO all the followers
Of the Pirates.
T HE Federal League doesn't look
so big a joke after all It's still
Wabbling along and while 1t will not
cut much figure this year lot Of
clubs are Clamoring for a chance to
get in next year, and IL may grow 10
be a strong circuit. In St. Louis the
team Is attracting a lot of attention.
II is forging to the front while the
other two St Louis teams are slump
ing. Naturally it is popular.
THAT Charley Franks plan for
solving the salary limit problem
for minor league clubs-the sliding
scale system-voted down by s l.
magnates at the annual meeting last
December. win he adopted by the Ma
tional Association for the 1914 sea
son is the opinion Of w. NJ. Kav-
anaugh, president of the Southern
League, according TO a statement in
New Orleans last week
There isn't a doubt in my mind, "
Mr.. Kavanaugh told a reporter. that
the National Association will adopt
Franks idea at the next meeting i'm
November. II is by far the best sug-
gestion ever advanced. for II not only
enables a club 10 pay a player fair
wages but It insures every league fin
ishing its season.
Had we been a little earlier with
the sliding scale system last fall, IL
would have been adopted unanimous
ly. Members Of the National Asso-
citation 20 whom | submitted the ar
rangement have since written me that
II is the only salvation for minor
league baseball as 1t equalizes mat
tiers and gives the smaller town a
chance to win a pennant occasional
~"
THIS is grabbed from a St Louis
paper and is published because fl
sounds the praise of an eminent
Georgian:
A USEFUL KID.
When passing round the auto carts
We'd like to say by lingo
We've got a youth of brilliant parts
Whose name is Ivey Wingo.
He's got a throwing arm OF steel
And that is why, by jingo.
The runners very seldom steal
When INey laf his WING