Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-06
MUSSER WAKES
UP;NELCHONCE
PROVES 4 HERO
By Percy II. Whiting.

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 long ways. His curves
break off az sharply as a continued
story in daily paper. and he has all
sorts OF them.
Musser is about due to win lot OF
ball games, beginning Thursday.
MUsSER pitched three-hit ball
A'1 against the Lookouts Thursday
and then nearly failed to win ball
game. That he did win it he has
himself and Harry Welchonce to
thank, with some scattered apprecia-
ton due his other seven teammates.
1t was one of Welcomes days to
be a hero. He made three tremen-
dous plays, and all Of them had
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 1t on a bound
to Dunn. who touched out King. 1t
was perfect throw, and 1t completed
a timely double play.
Then in the seventh, with the score
tied, two Crackers on BASES and two
gone. Harry came up. 1t was an
elegant time for a hit and Harry
knew 1t. Yet he met one of Forest
More's fastest fast-balls with all ap-
parent ease. out on line 1t sailed,
past the outfielders, 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 it was wasted effort
for the thing was a clean home run
from the time it left his bat.
Apparently this hit put the game on
ice, but in the ninth it fell to Harry's
lot to keep II 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 II started
off for center field, tagged for a home
run. If il had gone for that the
game would have been tied up. But
Welchonce made a great run for It,
pulled II down and ended the game.
1t 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 piH to Bill Smith, who
naturally hates 20 take a game from
the club that let him out last fall
you can understand how that would
be yourself
A LOT of the managers, baseball
1 4 writers and fans have been PAN
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 eNps 6Itiously than any man who
has worked here this season.
"EWCdy' was Eat the players" all
the time with remarks calculated to
keep them moving, and he helped
along what might otherwise have
been an intoIerably slow game.