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Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

The baseball team al Peacock is trying
to secure the use of diamond at Pied
mont park. At present they have no suit
able field on which to practice.
They have not done much track work
yet, but will be represented in the prep
meet. Peacock will have another cross
country team again next fall.
G. NJ y. will have a track meet April
l. between the different, classes of the
school This will be an elimination con-
test to decide which men shall enter the
prep meet in May.
Tech High played two more games Of
the interclass basket ball tournament yes
terday. IN the first game the seniors
trimmed the sophs 20 to II.
Beutell, center. and Downing. forward,
starred for the seniors Jentzen shot
nearly all Of the baskets for the sophs
and HaWs pla!ed strong game al guard.
The second game was nip and tuck all
the way through between the freshmen
class and the freshman c class The
y class hnaily won. Score-14 to TO-
The c class led at the end of the first
nam oul failed to keep up the good work.
Chamberlain ana Ponder played well for
the \ class, and Day and Edmondson for
Class 6.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

ON the theory that most men like what
they cant do, Ping Bodie has become a
billiard bug. lie prefers. to pay by the
game instead Of by the hour.
Crabbo FoXen has reported to Manag ger
Wordsworth. The Barons did not want
him so soon. but maybe Bill figured that
an early arrival meant free board.
Yantz says he viii lay bricks rather
than report to New Orleans "All right,
go ahead and lay is Cholly Franks at,
titude
Charley Ebbets has signed young un-
known semi-pro pitcher, who is a neph-
eW Of the law partner of the senator from
the Third New York distrct-which may
be good politics. but is unquestionabiy
bum baseball.
Pitcher Wingo Anderson. formerly Of
Nashville. has signed a contract with
Fort Worth and has reported.
Among those notified not TO report to
the Tigers was Ty Cobb-which seems to
us like a waste of postage stamps and
stationery
Harry Wolter sailed for Cuba with the
last batch Of New York recruits. His
busted prop seemed all right,
Joe HNtIS Will Bci Iol OF WOIkpnlS
with the Giants this spring at second
base. His chances of displacng Larry
Doyle are considered moderately remote.
Tho hest way to keep Horace Foger s
wel advertised expose of baseball from
doing any harm is to let him print it.
NJ Bcumiuer, former Cracker shortstop.
was boosted $50 month by Louisville this
spring and signed right quick before any
body had a chance to change a mind
Rochester is still wondering if Zinn is
going to sign. If he decides to come
through II win neccSsitate a change of
mind.
Arnold Hauser, of the Cardinals, did
not go South with the team on account
out in ST. Louis at Robson field. when
The weather is fair, in a nearby gymna =
stun when it isn't
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
SCHOOLBOY NEHS GUS,11 4ND

The A. 6. Spalding company has offered
a cup to the winners in each branch of
athletics in the prep league this season.
These trophies can be kept permanently
by the teams that win them.
About one hundred and fifty of the ca
diets of G.. NJ. \. left yesterday for Wash
ington. where they will march in the in
augural parade.
The party included a number of the
school athletes and all athletic work will
be suspended until they return on
March 9.
The Boys High baseball candidates held
q Snappy practice yesterday afternoon and
by the looks of things some of the old
players are not so sure of getting their
jobs back after all.
The school has plenty of youthful re-
cruits who are showing lots of class
The team is much more fulIy equipped
than it was last season. The athletic
association has furnished them with a
complete line of brand new baseball para
phernala.
An event that is arousing no small
amount of interest among the students
of Boys High just at present is tennis
tournament that is being arranged by
Gambler and Jones, tennis fans
There is a galaxy of tennis stars at
the school and the meet ought to prove
a successful one
Boys High is also making preparations
for their field day exercises to he held the
middle of April al Tech Flats. providing
the improvements which are now being
made there are finished.
\ committee has been named to make
final arrangements for this event and to
procure suitable medals for the point win
ners.
Most Of the track team are working out
daily. Armstead. Fox, Lockridge and
Hurlock form the nucleus Of the team
Armstead has a record of So feet for
the shot put, which is only two feet in
side the prep. league record for that
event, made by Brannon, of Marist, last
year.
Peacock wound UP its basket ball season
Yesterday afternoon when the team met
Marist college in the Peacock gymnasium
The Marist team was too strong for
them. winning handiy by the score Of
81 10 10. Allen Lenard and Kennedy did
the best work for Marist, and Jones and
Sans starred for Peacock
This game should have been PLAYED
early IN the season. bur through The mix
up IN the schedule hal to he postponed
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
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Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
BOSTON TEAMS ON WAY
TO SOUTHERN QUARTERS

BOSTON, March 1.-The vanguards of
both Boston major league baseball teams
started South for the spring training
trip hlst night. Only few members
Of the worlds champion Americans left
Boston, but other members will be picked
up en- route to Hot Springs, Ark.
The Nationals got away for New York,
the first stop on the way to Athens. Ga.
Ray Collins. the southpaw pitcher re-
mains the only hold-out from the Amer
lean squad.
Manager Stallings telegraphed to the
local officers tonight that Cobb, who has
refused to report to the Detroit training
camp pending settlement Of his demands
for increased salary. is at the Haddock
plantation, working out with the Boston
players who have reached there.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
BAILEY AND REYNOLDS
WILL BOTH REPORT LATE

OuthelGer Harry Bailey and Catcher
Ham Reynolds will be bit late in re-
porting to the Crackers
Bailey has written that ne has bust
ness matters to attend to that Will
keep him until March 10. He will re-
port Immediately after that time and
should be here by March l. or 13. AS
he is a man who keeps in good condi-
ton normally there should be no trou-
BILE i'll getting him in trim by opening
day
Reynolds has a nice contract as as
sistant coach of the Georgia Military
college team, at Milledgeville, and will
be allowed to stick around there. He
will be working daily with the school
team and will get himself in condition
that way
All other players. as far as Manager
Smith has heard, win report by March 3
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
By j. W. Heisman.

~ ONTINUING. for a moment,
our discussion of the sub
ject of backing up in base
ball, | wish to point out to ambi-
tious amateurs the fact that be
cause you do not often see pro-
fessional players going to the trou-
bic of coming in fast and always
from the outfield to back up the
nearest base on batted infield balls
and on throws to and around the
infeld. is no reason whatever why
you should not get busy and do
this.
In professional ball there is much
less chance of such errors occur
ring as viii render the Johnny on
the spot presence of a backer- up
valuable. as is the case with anna
teur teams. In professional ball a
player is supposed to throw
straight, not wild to a base: if he
can not, they quickly find it out
and get another man in his place,
Tor they nave the wide world to
draw from. A professional player
is always expected to Swing on"
to a ball thrown anywhere rea-
sonably near him: if he can not do
this, they can him and get a
man who can ono pun intended).
But in college ball we are limited
to the men we happen to have in
that particular colIege-We cant go
out and draw on the resources the
world at large has to offer. So if
we have players on the team who
can not be depended upon to throw
accurately, and others who can
not always be counted upon to
catch what Is thrown them (and
all amateur teams have some such
players), we have to do the next
best thing. and that is to drill
backing up into the players. so that
the evil results of any such mis-
cues will, at any rate, be reduced
to a minimum.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
LARRY CHENEY COMES TO
TERMS WITH THE CUBS

CHICAGO. March Larry Cheney.
the star spitbau pitcher of the Cub
team, who has been reported in the
'holdout' baseball colony, signed a
three-yedr contract To play with the
cubs i'm President Murphys office to-
day and win leave for Tampa to ioia
his teammates tonight
Cheney has been out OF the fold for
some time, and ii was reported tuat
he was going into some business Ven-
ture in oklahoma Cheney denied that
he WAS at outs with the new leader
of the cub team, and said he would
give EverS the best pitching hc had in
his makeup.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
Baseball Work for the Ambitious An1ateurs---No. 5
Coach J.W, Heisman Writes on Backing Up Plays"
By Tad

out of all esponsibility, as well as
all work that you possibly can, for
he has enough worries on his mind
in merely "dishing them up"
Give him many more duties and
you will find the strain. in many
instances. affecting his pitching
most disastrously.
THUS far we have touched on
certain phases of infield work
only. OF course, they do not be-
gin to cover all the infield work.
for that would take a compendium.
We shall now take a look at the
work of outfielders.
First, I would suggest to all out
f1elders the advisability of catch
ing the ball in front of them when
ever practicable BY doing so, the
hands will not only be backed up
by the body but the ball will all
the time be kept more surely in
sight. At the same time. the catch
er is then in attitude to throw the
ball in quickly. Some men pre-
fer TO station themselves in such
relation to fly ball that they have
to raise their hands and arms I'D
over their heads to get the fly.
This is very bad form.
Outf1elders must learn to fudge
instantly after the crack of the
bat (and largely BY the craclO just
now lar and where the ball is go
ing. They should not start running
until they have found out where
the ball is going, but after that
they should get a swift move on.
Do your hard running at first. so
that, as nearly as possible, you may
De stationary at the instant the
DaII strikes your hands. If the fly
IS well over your head. turn in
stantly and run with it as far as
YOU think is necessary: then turn
again and face it, if you have time.
otherwise you will have to take it
over your shoulder while running
with it. on line drives be careful
you do not start running in for it
till YOU have first found out wheth-
er it is not coming all the way out
TO YOU.
While the ball is coming out get
yourself in such an attitude and
body posture that you will be able
II ho al in, 10 Il 7
Immediately after catching il. Do
not lose time adjusting yourself for
throw which you might have
been doing before the ball reached
you. Get into the habit of return
ing the ball without loss Of time to
the infield whether there is man
on base or not. Don't hold Il and
dare runner to go on to the next
base because you want to show him
and everybody else what a jim
dandy arm you have; if he is a base
runner he will take your dare and
go, and you will lose him more than
half the time. Like others. you
may be hard to convince of the
truth of this, but that is what a
quarter of century of observation
has told me, and you won't lose
much if YOU take the net results Of
my lengthy experience here.
Throw the ball to the base ahead
of the runner after you know it is
too late to get him at the base he
is approaching or has already
reached.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
Smith VIII Work Players Only -Four Hours Day
Fears 0vertraining and VIII Take No Chances

Hans. He threw fast one and
then began his dash, He got two
steps when the ball, on the return,
caught him in the diner They
didn't serve any meals in that diner
the rest of the week"
HERE'S another historic baseball
joke that shouldn't be forgot
ten, SO is here revived:
What's become Of old Bill Jen-
kns who used to catch for our
team and then got to boozing?'
"Oh, he's still catching"
That's funny; | never ran across
his name in the guide
That's nothing He amt in the
guide. He's catching red-hot rivets
In keg.'
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
GEORGIA'S QUINTET
DEFEATS TECH FIVE
IN RED HOT BATTLE

The University of Georgia basket ball
team defeated the Tech five last night
S5 to 20. As had been predicted, the
score WAS much closer than that of the
first meeting between these two col
Ieges. The battle last night was the
most exciting one of the season. Al
though Tech appeared little weak in
the first half, the boys did themselves
proud in the second period
The game was pretty rough at times
and the referee called many fouls on
both teams. Peacock. of Georgia. made
II of the So points credited to his team
and shot some baskets from the mid -
die of the floor. Bradley of Tech,
played a great defensive game.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

But even in professional ball we
are beginning to see professional
players come in with a hustle and
back the infield up, the way the
best coached amateur and college
teams have been doing these ten
years past Even though they come
in 80 times in succession without
finding anything for them to do
when they get there, Yet on the
one hunGredth occasion they find
that they have saved a base, q run,
or even. perhaps, the game. Time
was when they laughed at the col
lege boys for doing these things,
but the astute manager now en-
courages them to do likewise, just
as he is finding out, as did the col
legians of long ago, that ciga=
rettcs and booze and late hours
don't go well with highgrade per-
formances on the diamond.
The professional manager is
finding that he must also be some
thing Of a trainer and something of
a coach, as well as a manager, in
these days of progress.
A LWAYS relieve Your pitcher Of
any and all extra work that
you possibly can. If the ball is
thrown wild or carelessly to him,
so that he has to walk distance
for it, every infielder should be on
the alert to save him this unneces-
sary eXertion. AS a corollary to
this it may he added that every one
should throw carefully to the pitch
ei-not TOO hard, not so high as TO
make him jump, not so low as to
make him stoop for ii. and not so
wide as to make him strain to
reach it,
Remember. too, that if the ball
goes through him, il is hard for
any other infielder to recover the
ball before the runner on base will
have had a fine chance o sWipe a
base out of the carClessly thrown
ball Whenever possible, also, 9TH
ers should take the infield flies that
the pitcher should get: leave him
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
WEDDING BELLS NOT FOR
"SM0KY JOE" WOOD YET

KANSAS CITY. March 1.-"Smoky"
Joe Wood prefers COW bells to wedding
bells. In other words, he would rather
go to the country and rest than marry.
I'm not old enough to get married" ,"
said Wood this morning. I'm only %
and that's not enough by a good deal.
II takes more nerve to handle mat
rimonial proposition than a ball game"
Smoky Joe arrived in Kansas City
from Parkers Glen, Pa. He will spend
few days here and then go to Hot
Springs, His engagement to a Kansa S
City girl was reported several months
ago
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
FINGERS CUT
OFF, BUT SEWED ON AGAIN

CHICAGO March l.-C. d. Halo.
pitcher Of the Northwestern university
baseball team. lost two fingers of his
pitching hand in a lathe yesterday. The
fingers were picked up washed ana
seWed IN place within IA few minutes.
ana II Is hoped that Hale may be able
20 pItch before the season is ended.
Hale is an engineering student and
last season was one of the best pitch =
ers on the Northwestern staff
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
M'MILlAN'S FATHER KEEN
TO BUY RELEASE OF SON

If the Rochester team Is not willing tn
give. Tommy Mcmillan the salary he is
holding out for a man stands ready to
buy his release. And the man is not a
manager, either In fact. the man who
stands ready To put up the coin for
Tommy's release Is his father
Tommy believes that he could get a
very satisfactory contract II he could get
loose from the Rochester team. and if
Manager John Camel is willing TO set a
ressonah he price it Will he paid
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
CINCINNATI, MAY GIVE
M'INTYRE A TRY-OUT

CINCINNATI. March HARRY Nc
lntyre. the man Who once pitched the
Memphis team to a penuant and Who
has been a. star with big league teams
for years, may be given a try-out with
the Reds this spring. Mcintyre is a
free agent at present, and Manager
Tinker is ready to pay his expenses
through the training season in the hope
that he can get i'm condition
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
WORLD TOUR FOR BURNS.

CALGARY, ALBERTA, March l.
Unless Tommy Burns is able to ar
range bout near here around May "a
with either Bombardier Wells or Lu-
ther McCarty. he will tour the world
under the management of L. G. Keat-
ing of Portland. Greg. and will box in
the United States England. ireland.
France and Australia
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
LAST BATCH OF YANKEES
SAIL FOR BERMUDA CAMP

NEW YORK. March THE last con-
tingent of the Americans left early today
for Bermuda aboard The Arcadian. They
are Ray Caldwell, Chester Hoff. George
Mcconnell. Patsy Green and Albert
Schulz. all pitchers; Williams, catcher;
Malcolm Barry, first base Ralph Ioung.
second base. Claud Derrick. Jack Martin,
Douglass HARRISON and William Stumpf,
shovtstOps; John Priest and Ezra Midkiff.
third basemen. and Outtelders Birdie
Cree. Harry Wolter and Bert Daniels.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
LAWMAKER CHALLENGES
MCFARLAND FOR BOUT

CHICAGO, March THAT ocular DEM
onstration viii aid in passing the boxing
bill now before the state legislature is
the belief of Representative George G.
Hilton. who drafted the bill
Representative Hilton has challenged
Packey Mcfarland 30 meet him in a four
round exhibition before members of both
houses soon, in the arsenal at Spring
field
Hilton is a skilled amateur boxer.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
CHAPMAN OURS HoLDours

CLEVELAND, OHIO March Kay
Chapman, the sensational Nap short
stop, who has been holding out for
more salary wired President Somers
today that he would accept the terms
of the cleveland club and that mis-
signed contract was i'm the mail lie
viii join the team ut Pensacola
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
COLLEGES BREAK EVEN.

NEW YORK, March 1.-The Colum-
bia university fencing team defeated
Cornell last night. six bouts TO three
but Columbia Was beaten in gytu-
na>tic competition by New York uni
NcrSttN. 81 to g..
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
SWEENEY RFArs EosEsr

DAYTON. OHIO. N8rCh "knockOut''
sweeney uf New York, was given the de
ei~iuu over Eddie Forest. uf Chicago. I'm a
utCcu-ruWd bout here last night
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

nF course. Charley Frank isn't
~ prevaricatolT but then he is
subject r-misstatements
For instance, he is Indirectly
quoted as saying that the Atlanta
club was saved only a matter of
S9o or $1O0 by the agreement Of the
non Sunday BAH l-playing towns to
prorate their mileage; and on the
strength of this saving they let the
schedule go through.
Interesting, of course but UNI
true.
The Atlanta club was saved a
matter of LIS miles by the pro-
rating agreement on the basis of
an 1S-man team (Which was what
was agreed upon) and averaging
mp The railroad rates. tho Atlanta
club saved $50950. Which was
surely worth making fight for
NoU remember Larry Hoffman,
the corking good third baseman
who used to perform for the Crack
er team? Wei. what do you sup
pose he's doing now?
Selling underwear,
Not az retail, of course. Larry
is travelling for the Stephenson I'm
derwCar Company. South Bend, IND
He recently wrote Billy Smith.
recommending "a Young nhelder. A.
BiA was a1arstoehed With young iu-
Uellers. however n, did NOT .tf ay.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
rIoERs pEEeAr eENNsY rMlcE

TTN-NI n TI'N. y y WUFCH Y ounce
tom defeated nruu~> ,Vauia al swimming
here last night. &l tu -. and az water
pulo l0 tn 49,
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
BY Percy II. Whiting.

6(TouR hours day is all ] am
r. going to work my play
ers" So says Bill Smith.
81 wouldn't work them any longer
Ar the day was month long.
"The big danger in the Southern
league is from over training con-
tinued Bill. THE players go
against a lot Of hot weather, and
IL works them mighty hard and
sweats them harder II they work
100 hard they go stale, And in a
league where you're lucky to have
one extra man you're in an awful
fix If three or four players so stale
on you at once
What will be your training
hours" Bill was asked.
Let's sec" pondered william.
From 9:30 to 1880 in the morning
VIII be good. And from to in
the afternoon That win give the
players plenty of time for their
lunch. without encouraging them
10 eat too much in the middle of
the day
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01

n RESIDENT FRANK GALA
4 WAY Is keen to make an effort
this year to win the cup offered by
President Kavanaugh for the larg
est attendance at the opening game.
President Andrews, of Chatta-
nooga, and President Baugh, Of
Birmingham. have been ioshing
President Galloway until he's ten
der to the touch mot that We ever
tried to touch him for anything),
and he says that if there is any
thing he can do, short of knocking
down the fence. to get the largest
crowd inside Ponce DeLeon, he is
prepared to do IT,
Major Callaway's nanny has per
manently departed on this opening
game thing.
I'm getting slightly weary of
being joshed about this I know
we have the best bali town in the
league, and know we ought to
have the largest crowd But we
didn't last year, and Il looks as
though should never hear the last
of Il. I'm going to strain every
nerve 70 get the largest crowd out
that is possible
OF course, President Callaway
realizes, along with everybody
else. that the Crackers have fin-
ished a most hopeless last for two
wears in succession, and that a lot
of real fans are triie sore on
the whole diamond proposition.
Then. on the other hand, he be-
lieves the fact that Bill Smith is
back in charge again will make up
for lot of past failings.
And, anyhow, he wants that cup,
which isn't worth a hang except
as insurance against joshing
In other words. he wants that
nanny back
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

hut ii IS more graceful TO sit erect and bend
slightly forward from the waist Il is awk-
ward to draw both feet back and very ugly
10 cross one knee over the other Il is i'm
correct 10 drop suddenly into a chair or to
clutch the sides or arms of the chair when
rising from il. When rising from chair one
foot is i'm advance and the other is kept well
hack. II one rises quickly. holding the body
erect Strengthening the knees. letting the
weight of the body fan on the foot i'm advance.
there will be grace and ease in the movement
and no desire 10 propel ones self out Of the
chair by the assistance Of the hands
A man should never stand with his hands
in his pockets when talking TO a lady
or course. every marf knows he should re-
move his hat Immediately on entering an
other persons house. but good manners also
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house
A lady may accompany TO the door a lady