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

nAUL MUSSER is developing into
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 II he had
MusSers speed he would NEVER lose
a ball game. And probably ne
wouldn't lose many. For there's more
mop 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 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.
M USER pitched three-hit ball
A'A against the Lookouts Thursday
and then nearly failed to win a 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 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 il on a bound
to Dunn, who touched out King. It
was perfect throw, and it completed
a timely double play.
Then in the seventh, with the score
tied, two Crackers on BASES and two
gone, Harry came up. II was an
elegant time for a hit and Harry
knew it. Yet he met one Of Forest
More's fastest fast-balls with all ap-
parent ease. Out on a line it 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 il left his bat.
Apparently this hit put the game on
ice, but in the ninth II 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 to 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 # 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 10 win a
game from the Crackers. Thursdays
contest was the seventh straight they
have lost 20 Smiths men. OF course,
this is a bitter pill to Bill Smith, who
naturally hates TO 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
\ writer's 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 eEpeditiously than any man who
has worked here this season.
Rudy was 'at the players all
the time with remarks calculated 10
keep them moving and he helped
along what might otherwise have
been an iutolerably slow game.