Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-06
MUSSER WAKES
P;WELCHONCE
PROVES A HERO
By Percy H. Whiting.
.AUL MUSSER is developing into

DAUL MUSSER is developing into
a pitcher. 1t was alleged at the
first of the season that he al
ready WAS a pitcher. Later this was
denied hotly by the fans. Now he Is
beginning to show them.
Control and confidence have been
the only things lacking in Musser's
repertoir He is gradually acquiring
them both
King" Brady says that if he had
Musser's speed he would NEVER lose
a ball game. And probably he
wouldn't lose many. For there's more
hop to Musser's smoke pill than there
is to a toad. And that isn't all he
has-not by a long ways. His curves
break off as sharply as a continued
story in daily paper and he has all
sorts Of them.
Musser is about due to win a lot Of
ball games, beginning. Thursday.
MUSSER pitched three-hit ball
1fI against the Lookouts Thursday
and then nearly failed to win d ball
game. That he did win it he has
himself and Harry WelchonCe to
thank. with some scattered appreCia-
tion due his other seven teammates.
It was one of Welcomes days to
be a hero He made three tremen-
dous plays, and all of them had a
bearing on the game.
In the sixth inning. with Grab"
King on third base, Elberfeld swatted
one to Welchonce. Harry fielded the
ball and then returned it on a bound
to Dunn, who touched out King. II
was a perfect throw, and it completed
q timely double play.
Then in the seventh, with the score
tied, two Crackers on basses and two
gone. Harry came up. II was an
elegant time for a hit and Harry
knew il. Yet he met one Of Forest
More's fastest fast balls with all APP
parent ease Out on a line il sailed,
past the outfelders, up beyond the
right hand side of the score board
and then hooked around behind it.
Harry slid into the plate for an easy
decision but il was wasted effort
for the thing was a clean home run
from the time il left his bat
Apparently this hit put the game on
ice, but in the ninth il fell to Harry's
lot to keep il there.
With two down in the first Of the
ninth Johnson singled and then Al
perman pulled an error and two were
on. Up came young Williams who
hadn't been hitting at all up 10 then.
He met the ball fair and it started
off for center field, tagged for home
run. If il had gone for that the
game would have been tied up. But
Welchonce made a great run for it,
pulled IL down and ended the game.
II was surely a great two-man vic
tory. with Musser and WelchOnce the
stars.
1T begins TO look as though the
LoOkOuts We're never to win a
game from the Crackers. Thursdays
contest was the seventh straight they
have lost to Smiths men. OF course,
this is a bitter pin TO Bin Smith, who
naturally hates to take game from
the club that let him out last fall
YOU can understand how that would
be yourself
ALOT of the managers, baseball
u writers and fans have been pam
ming Umpire Rudderham this season.
Wen say this for the once famous
pitcher: he showed more pepper and
made a greater effort TO run off the
game eXpeditiously than any man who
has worked here this season.
Rudy" was cat the players all
the time with remarks calculated to
keen them moving, and he helped
along what might otherwise have
been an intOlerahly slow game.