Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-27
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

/ diamond news ana GOSSIP
| Miller Higgins Will take an osteopath
with him on his next training trip He
| believes that stunt would put it all over
carrying dentist, chiroDodist or even
a trainer
| It Is not generally known. but John
McC1raw once asked waivers on Marquard
and would have fired him off The club
except for the fact that Griffith refused
J to waive.
Marty OToole also came near being a
waiver victim When he was with St
! Paul Mike Kelly tried to can him. Later
! he changed his mind, held him through
the season and sold him for $22,50O.
!
Miller Higgins is giving his catchers
more practice on pop fouls than on any
/ thing else. It's a good scheme, too.
| They are nasty TO handle and II makes
everybody sore when catcher drops
one.
Ivey Wmgo is practicng throwing with
his left hand, though he is normally a
{ highlander He believes thar I'm han
ding hunts In front Of the plate he can
( slip his glove of and throw left-handed
with better speed than he can pick up
the pill turn and throw right-handed.
.Derril Pratt is lhe official instructor
/ Of the Browns in The noble art of hook
sliding
Ernie Walker late of Montgomery, now
with the Browns has split hand and
can practice at all
! What hangs up the O'Leary deal is that
/ Charley VIII not report to the Browns
cludes a provision that he is to revert to
! the Indians at the end of this year The
/ idea Of going from indianapolis to the
Browns and back to Indianapolis is more
/ than he can bear
! Umpire Bull" Perrine is suffering
with locomotor ataXia and will never
work again
This will be a great year for children
in the big league Cleveland has
catcher. John Bassler, aged II. while
Acosta. the Cuban outfielder with Wash
ington' ~ only 10
Cad Coles, eX-Clemseu, ex-Augusta
and eN- Montgomery. win be with the Ell
mira. n Y, team this season.
Dutch schaefer is washingtons only
hold out, And Germany isn't exactly VIC
lent about it.
Henry Green. Clark Griffith's right
hand servant at Charlottesville lost his
laundry ticket the other day and the
chlnk turned him down when he tried to
barney his laundry package out of soak.
SO Henry departed returning anon with
fifteen Washington ball players, who ran
out the laundrymen and opened packages
until they found the right one. Where
upon Henry paid, the regiment departed
Ing
Ray Chapman is working on his slides
this spring and will go afteR Clyde Milan
when the season opens.
Al Klawitter seems to have cinched his
job with the Detroit team Murder how
he must have improved.
George kahlkon-you all know "kahl''
will manage the HopkInsvile team this
season
They are tearing down the slandc in the
Nanks will use the Polo grounds this year
George Stallings is trying 10 get AL
Shaw from Toronto.
Grass league have been declared free
agents the wretched truth has leaked
out-nobody wants EN-, anyhow.
The Reds have taken an option on the
Birmingham park training ground
for next season.
Bresnahan SAYS the reason he Joined
the Cubs instead Of the Pirates is that
he believed the Cubs have the better
chance of getting in the next worlds
series.
There are. SAYS Tommy Clarke of
! the Cincinnati team, two varieties OF
athletes in the, national pastime: ball
Joe Woods brother Pete. has signed
with Brockton. lie is young but big