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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23

for the coast next week, to take over his
new club
Jimmy Barrett. manager of the Mil
waukee team in 1911, has turned his at
tentiOn to selling motors.
Otto Williams. once a Pelican, has been
sold by indianapolis to Kansas City, and
will play second for the K. C's.
W. 6. Hirsig, president of the Nash
Vile club, is up in Cleveland, trying to
josh the Maps out of a couple of players.
The Vols will about get what Toledo and
New Orleans will not take
Memphis is trying to get Willis Butler,
the shortStOp sent to the PeliCanS by the
Maps in alleged payment of the phony
Cullop deal.
Charley Sommers has notified Joe Biz
mingham that he wants him to continue
playing in the outfield. Like all mana
gers, Joe is perfectly willing to stop
playing.
Charley Murphy says he isn't sure
Frank Chance will make a success as a
bench manager Neither is Frank Far
rell. But he was willing to risk $4,000
on IL.
Buffalo has sent Dolly Stark to sacra-
mentO.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
FRANK SENDS MAPLE
BACK TO TEXAS AGAIN

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 23.-One result
OF Eddie Wheeler's visit to New Orlea ms
was the purchase by the Beaumont man
ager Of Rolla Maple, the diminutive
sOuthpaW.
Maple was big disappointment to the
New Orleans fans last season, and after
a bad start he was placed with the Fort
Worth club, lie had a fairly good year
teen, with club which finished up with
Al percentage. Manager Frank re-
called him last fall, but was persuaded
by Wheeler TO part company with the lit
tie portsider. Wheeler also hopes to land
few other players from the Pei boss
for his Beaumont club
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
TECH ABOUT READY FOR
FIRST BASKET BALL GAME

The Tech basket ball team will start
the varsity season February T. Coach
Heisman and Coach Alexander have been
working hard with the team and now
have it in pretty good shape There is
some extra good material at Tech and
the chances are that the first season will
be a success.
A balcony has been built in the "crvs-
tai palace and all is ready for the
opening of Tech varsity basket ball sea
son.
Derby" Brown has been elected cap
tain. Prominent among those irving for
varsity honors are Snake" Porter BELL"
Holmes, Goat" Holiday, Ray Mon
salvatge,r Mac" Mccullough. Fog Mon
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
OLD TIMERS PLAY AT
ATHLETIC CLUB TONIGHT

A game of basket ball will be played
stars of former years and the present
team of the Atlanta Athletic club
The old timers promise plenty OF &C
ton and are confident of their ability to
show q come back" Every star of
former years, now a member OF the club,
will take part in the game.
Captain Doonan, of the sold timers,
team to start the game Al Doonan and
Dick Jemison, forwards; Walton Griffith
or Leo Spencer, center; Luther Hudson
and Fred HOyt, guards. Coke, Davis.
Moultrie, Hit, Halsey, McGovern, Carl
and Ernest Ramspeck are the substitutes
The club team will use the following
lineup: Forbes and Smith, forwards;
DuBard, center; Carter and Weaver,
guards
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
COACHERS' BOXES MAY
BE MOVED BACK 10 FEET

CLEVELAND, OHIO. Jan. 23.-Billy
Evans, American league umpire, here
today, declared in favor of the sugges-
ton of President Navin, of the Detroit
club. that the coachers boxes be moved
ten feet from the first and third bases
so the catchers will not consume so
much time in hiding their signals from
coachers. He said he believed the game
would be shortened ten minutes by the
change.
The coachers on first and third are
always keeping an eye on the catcher
and he has to squat and fuss to hide his
signals before each ball is pitched"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
l~ TMB DAN" MORGAN,

IT UMB DAN" MORGAN,
manager of Knockout
Brown. Jack Britton and
linn Savage, is going to camp on
-ne trail of Packey Mcfarland
when he quits Atlanta. Morgan
wants and has wanted for several
months to get Britton on with the
clever Chicago boy. Mcfarland,
however. has lodged Jack at every
opportunity.
But Morgan isn't going to let him
dodge any more. He intends going
wight to Packey's home and camp
nm his doorstep until a match is
made.
This morning Morgan received a
telegram from the Mcmahon broth
prs of New York. Said Mcmahon
brothers are promoters of a big
boxing club in Gay Gotham. The
telegram read:
"Have offered Mcfarland $1,000
guarantee to box Britton."
According to Morgan, Mcfarland
will not accept this juicy offer.
He knows Britton can beat him."
pipes Dan. He won't get in the
same ring with Jack unless he is
pulled in by a team of horses.
We'll. I'll get the team of horses,
if necessary" finished Dan on the
Britton subject.
THEN Morgan branched off on
Savage. Dan really believes he
has the coming heavyweight cham
pion in this bird.
The Auditorium Armory militia
are willing to put Savage and AL
Palzer on ten days hence. Morgan
Immediately sent Tom O'Rourke,
manager of Palzer, a telegram ask
ing him to bring on his protege.
This morning the following wire
was shot over by O'Rourke:
Dan Morgan,
Care The Georgian,
Atlanta, Ga:
"Palzer unable to fight for
some time. Has not fully recov-
cred from malaria he contract
ed before he fought Mccarthy.
tom OROURKE."
But Morgan is willing to wait UNI
til Palzer does recover from his at
tack Of malaria. 1t is possible that
Savage and the man who put up
such a great fight against Luther
mccarthy will be able to clash at the
Auditorium on February 6.
It's cinch Morgan will do all he
can to get Palzer into the same ring
with his Young Jim Corbett," as he
calls Savage.
2 ASEBALL, played all winter,
with a football instead of a
baseball, is the coming sport. As
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
YANTZ DEAL is BLOCKED:
PELICANS MAY LOSE HIM

CHICAGO, Jan. 23-It now deyeIops
that George Yantz, who was sold 6y
the Cubs to New Orleans, is not a PeIi,
can because, under the terms OF the ma
uonal agreement, the release was lille
gally made Yantz is again Cub be-
cause some technicality in his release
hampered the deal.
Secretary Farrell has been asked to
stratghten out the tangle. Under the
new rules, after getting waivers on Yantz
in the big leagues. Murphy must also
In the meantime, since Yantz has been
thrust on Murphy. it may give Murphy
less trouble to sell him to another ma
jor league club or trade him off
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23

he should do well. The Phillies look
like a pretty fair team this year
With their support, Mayer may
make good showing. One thing
certain, he'll never quit.
OF all those sent up last fall
Al Demaree looks just a shade
the best. At that it would be a
brave gambler who would bet more
than even money that he will stick
Demaree was an ordinary pitch
er up to last year. Atlanta owned
him once, but wouldn't bother to
give him a trial. He didn't look
like anything fiashy with Chatta-
nooga.
Last year Demaree came to life.
Bill Smith gives a lot of the cred
it to Joe Dunn. He says that
Joe's long head was responsible for
AIS good work. Certain it was
that Demaree developed into a
wonder.
He showed up every big league
team he worked against in the ex-
hibition series not giving UP run
after he struck his stride. On April
% he shut out New Orleans 6 to
0, and struck out IL men (and the
Pelicans We're no weak hitters, as
they showed two days later by
making 20 hits for 25 bases against
some other Mobile league pitch
ers).
Demaree made the most wonder
full start that ever a pitcher made.
For 40 innings not a base runner
crossed the plate while Demaree
was pitching. In succession, and
within twelve days, he shut out
New Orleans twice, Birmingham
and Montgomery.
1t was not until the fifth inning
of the fifth game that a runner
slipped over. But even then Dema-
rec continued to win. He beat Bir-
mingham, Nashville, Memphis and
Chattanooga in the order named,
and arrived in Atlanta with eight
straight victories to his credit
Against the joke Atlanta team
Demaree lost his first game. In the
seventh it was tied up. Then
OBrien singled, Donahue sacri-
feed, Atkins ripped off a single
and Harry Bailey knocked a three
Dagger. And right there Al got the
first trimming of his 1912 career.
Demaree's remarkable record in
winning eight straights is here
given:
Date. Opposing r. h.. SIS. BIB.
Club
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23

@ AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23.-Is
y baseball faster today than it
was fifteen years ago? Is the
individual star a speedier man on
the bases? Can the pitcher work
TO greater perfection? Some say
yes, others say no. so it's UP to Bill
Lange, who as outfielder for the
Chicago Cubs a dozen years ago
was rated the fastest man in the
game. to answer the question. 1t
was put straight up to Bill to give
the fans his answer. and Lange
comes back with just as straight
forward an answer.
1T may sound like sour grapes"
said the former Chicago crack. for
me to say that baseball has not i'm
proved in individual play. but that's
the way it looks to me, so why
shouldn't | say so, as long as |
have been asked the question?
don't doubt that baseball has i'm
proved in team work and in signals
otherwise called inside baseball a
much abused term. The standard
of the players has doubtless i'm
proved, because baseball has
changed. but so far as the individ-
ual is concerned. l don't think there
have been many improvements.
Old Stars Still Stick.
Something like twelve years ago
| quit the game. In those days
there were such men in the game
as Frank Chance, Fred Clarke. Ma
poleon Lajoie, Hans Wagner, Tom
my Leach, SheCkard. Bobby Wal
lace, Bresnahan and Bill Dahlen,
~ OIL eli 10
marks in baseball.
Look at the list of today's stars
and there are not more than half a
dozen who can be held up to com
pare with them. Take Ty Cobb,
iris Speaker Collins. Baker and
perhaps a few others, and you have
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
Southern League Pitchers "sen Higher Last Fall Look Only
MAYER, DEMAREE AND SMITH ARE BEST IN LOT
By Percy H. Whiting.

winning ball for big league
club? Can the awkwardest
pitcher in Southern league history
become a Giant? Can a lad who
learned the pitching art by selling
pop get away in the American
league?
Answer these questions and you
know the fate of the three most
promising pitchers sold by South
ern league clubs to the big leagues
last fall-Mayer, Demaree and
Smith.
MAYER was sold by Atlanta to
4FA the Philadelphia Americans.
But, of course, he played only
small part of the season with the
Crackers. He won his graduation
on the strength of his showing with
the Portsmouth club.
Now, this Mayer lad is no low
brow. on the contrary, he is an
other of the vast army of educated
young men who are forging up
ward in baseball.
Mayer was born in Cincinnati or
some such place, but most of his
life he has lived in Savannah. Not
so many years ago he entered the
Georgia School of Technology.
When the spring came he went out
with the baseball squad and told
them he was a pitcher. After look
ing him over, the baseball author
tiles said: mo, there must be some
mistake. You might qualify for a
bat boy, but you'd shine in the role
of a shadow"
Well, he was thin, all right; and
didn't seem to have strength enough
to pick up ball, much less throw
it. But finally he persuaded them
to give him a trial. After that
there was nothing more to it. They
christened him Scissors" and bet
their board money when he worked.
He seldom failed to bring home the
decision and he was an ALI South
ern pitcher before he was through.
Lack of size will be Mayors
worst handicap In the big leagues.
1t was in the Southern. He didn't
look impressive. When he ambled
into the box the batters all got
bunch they had something on him.
Sometimes they did.
Mayer got three consecutive tries
with the Atlanta team. And three
times they sent him back.
1t isn't likely they'll ever have
another chance. Last spring Char
ley Hemphill sent him to Ports
mouth. Everybody said Charley
was fool for doing 1t. He was.
With Portsmouth, Mayer hit his
stride. With a team that was los
ing bunch of games, "The Scis-
sors" was invincible. His speed
made him the terror of the league.
And he had a good curve ball. too.
Also he had grand head. Moth
ing ratified him. His is the trained
mind. He has learned to think fast,
to remember and to act on the
thought.
Mayors chances Of making good
seem fairly good. His lack of size is
against him. A manager is likely
to look him over and pass him up.
OF course, some slatty pitchers
have made good. But your ideal
hurler is broad of shoulder and
moderately husky. 1t would seem
about an even bet If Mayer. who
is a slow starter, can manage to
bluff along until he hits his stride,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
CATCHERS AND PITCHERS
START WORK AT MERCER

MACON. GA. Mercer University. Jan
%. DR.. Stroud today issued his FIRST cali
for baseball candidates. All pitchers and
catchers were asked TO report at the GYM
nasium for work. For the next two weeks
they will harden up their arms gradually
and will be ready for pitching to the bat
tiers early in February.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
AUBURN AND GEORGIA
MAY PLAY HERE NOV. 22

Auburn and Georgia may play their
annual football game in Atlanta on the
Saturday before Thanksgiving day.
It has been the custom to play this
game on Thanksgiving day in some
smaller city. However, the Auburn
Georgia game played in Atlanta would
pay the expenses Of the two athletic as
sOciatiOns for the season
The Saturday before Thanksgiving is
always an open da tie with Tech and there
fore there would be no conflict in adtes
in this respeCt.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23

club. Without him the Gulls would
have been lucky not to have fin
ished in the second division. With
his help they landed second.
Demaree learned a lot last year,
not only about pitching. but about
fielding his position--a point on
which he had been weak, And he
looked good-there's no doubling
that
Al has many points in his favor.
He isn't addicted to any danger
GUS habits except smoking long,
black cigars He has plenty of
sense and good head
Demaree worked in a couple of
games with the Giants last fall.
In one he looked good. In another
he didn't. With the superlative
handling he will get on the Giant
team he has a chance.
p ERHAPS the most interesting of
the Southern league hurlers in
the big show is Pop Boy" Smith.
This lad was brought up in the
Birmingham ball park. He began
to hang out there ten years ago,
small lad in short pants. AS he
grew up his love for the game led
him to securing a job to work
there. and he became a pop seller
When the batters were warming
up, and before the pop buyers be
gan to arrive, Smith used to pitch
to the batters He studied the
game and the players. who liked
the enthusiastic kid, helped him
out. Finally Smith grew up into a
spindling, loose-jointed lad.
And one day he asked Carleton
Wordsworth to get him a job.
Il thought you were a pop sell
err" said Molesworth
mix, I'm pitcher" replied
Smith.
So Wordsworth landed him a Job
with Admission. Tom Fisher was
manager of the team and he show
ed Smith a lot about the pitching
art.
Last year Wordsworth gave
Smith a chance and he demon
strated real worth. He had good
team behind him and he won a lot
of games
This spring Smith will be tried
out by the White Sox OF course
the lad Is awfully young, certainly
not over 81 years. He is light and
he has had but two years of expe-
rience. In the course Of a few
years he will fill out, take on 10 or
$50 pounds Of weight and will be a
wonder. He has good habits, a
good head for a kid, lots of steam,
a nice enough curve ball and lot
of confidence in himself. That he
will stick this year is moderately
doubtful.
unUTCH" WAGNER. the New
Orleans hurler sent to Brook
Ign, is a good, husky chap, with a
lot of stuff, He is going to club
that needs pitchers (among other
things). He is a good, steady
plugger. He has a chance of max
ing good.
WILLIAMS, the Nashville pitcher
sold to Brooklyn, languished
most Of last season in the Appa-
lachlan league, with the Morris
town club He is a lad picked UP
off the lots and he developed
mighty fast last year. Little is
known Of him here.
n My one catcher in the Dixie
circuit last year was consid-
cred good enough for a big league
trial That one was McAllister, of
Montgomery, who was grabbed by
the Browns. Neither his batting
nor fielding records were impress
sive. But he is young, probably
not over 81; he Is a husky chap
and can learn. He throws we'll. 1t
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
DESSAU SENT BACK TO
LINCOLN BY CHAS. CARR

KANSAS CITY, MO, Jan. 23-Pitcher
Dessau, a Cracker last year, will be with
Lincoln, Nebr.. the coming season. Man
ager Charley Carr has decided that Des-
Sau is too light for the American asso-
citation but believes he viii be great
success with Lincoln
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
WASHINGTON PLAYERS TO
SEE THE INAUGURATION

WASHINGTON. Jan. 23-ManaRer
Clark Griffith has ordered his men to re-
port in Washington March so that they
may be able to see the Inauguration cere-
monies. They will leave for their train
ing camp at Charlottesville, Va, March g.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
0NK6lSON SIGNS AND
WILL GET A TRY-OUT

Harb}sllSSN Lille, KY. Jan. 23.-Douglas
s.Pnad H. IaSt year with Atlanta, has
'5e Ys5 4is l9l$ contract as a member Of
srrfng my ana will be given a trial this
Saebyyina Is spending the winter at
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
CUBS MAY GET KONETCHY
IN DEAL WITH CARDINALS

CINCINNATI, OHIO, Jan 23-Reports
today said Charles Murphy, owner of the
Chicago Cubs, and Miller Huggns, man
ager of the St Louis Cardinals, were to
meet here and effect a trade involving
Bill Konetchy, the Cardinal first sacker
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
TWO GAMES AT ARMoRY.

A double-header basket ball affair will
two teams of the Atlanta league and two
of the Fulton mixing II.
The Young Mems Christian association
team meets the S. V. D. fraternity and
regiment teams hook up
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
LATHAM is ALLEY MANAGES

NEW YORK., Jan 23-Arlle latham
famous as a third baseman and one OF
the widest clowns baseball ever pro-
duced, has been made assistant mana
ger Of the Grand Central bowling alleys
on Fulton street
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Johnny Dun
dee, the local featherweight who looms
up as a championship possibility. easily
outpointed Willie Jones, the Brooklyn
featherweight, in a fast ten-round bout
last night.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
UMPIRE BRENNAN SIGNS.

ST PAUL, MINI. Jan 2S.-William
Brennan, umpire, today signed and mailed
70 President Lynch, Of the National
league, his contract for 1918 II is un-
derstood that the contract provides an
increase Of $1,000 over Brennan's salary
last year.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
LOCKE LEAVES PIRATES.

TTTTNBT no, Jan 43..W Imam IT
Locke resigned today as secretary Of the
Pittsburg National league club. TO take
up his new duties with the Philadelphia
club
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
PLANK COACHES GETrYsRuRn.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan 23-Eddfe
Plank, pitcher Of the Athletics. viii
coach the Gettysburg college nine this
spring
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-06-14
\ III W. UNITED STATES AND GPEAT BPTTALN !

Don't grieye when I am dead I
: died in peace All my life I have been
d true apostle Of that gospel-but
/ hurry! Hurry to the island Of" He
drew himself up with his last
strength; an inarticuIate sound came
from his lips; he beckoned TO Astra
for the pencil and paper and forced
his shaking hand to write one word:
*Cirynith," ran the zigzag lines of
the shaking old hand, then the pencil
fell from his fingers. Calm stole over
the face of the man who had lived for
one great idea, Peace" He had found
. it, but his last words advised War"
Astra looked sorrowingly at her IA
! Their. Tears filled her eyes as she
called the doctor.
But Hannibal Prudent had reared
her, and after the first burst of grief
she remembered her duty. Taking the
message from Europe and her notes,
she hurried to her fathers library.
With a steady hand she transcribed
her notes on the typewriter, but when
she came to the word written by Han
! nibal Prudent, 'Cirynith,"" the tears
came again.
She could not understand the mean
| ing Of the command: Hurry to the.
| island of Cirynith." was there an
! island of that name? she had never
] heard of it.
While Astra was In her fathers
library the sad news. spread through
/ the city. The autographed extras. be-
gan to appear at the automatic news
/ etc CHI n TOR fvsy
about the wireless message from
Germany alarmed everybody.
More than fifty. years before. in the
year 1919, the now prosperous and
peaceful United States had expert
/ enced great disaster. New emigra-
ton laws and the new tariff had pre-
| cipitated an international conflict that
had involved not only the leading Eu-
ropean naonarchies but Japan and
China as we'll. The ultimatum came
from the East and the West. Europe
was modelling on one side; the orien-
tails on the other; all the nations
against one. The question was wheth-
er it was best to bow before the will
of the united enemy, or to lose indie.
pendence. Congress seemed unable to
q decide.
The time given the United States
for consideration was rapidly passing
The President was in despair. He
Il gave orders TO the feet and LAND
forces, but in his heart he cried
What is the user
The night before the day of final an
swer he stood before the window
looking hopelessly into the starlesi
, darkness.
Suddenly a mans head appeared a
the window. The next moment tn
intruder jumped into the room.
Before the surprised executive coul,
cry out the intruder exclaimed:
For three days l have tried to gail
an audience with you, but in vain
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-06-14

Since I know that tomorrow will be
too late have forced by way to YOU"
What brings you here?" the Presi-
dent asked.
MY desire to save my country, TO
repulse the enemy. l can defend the
entire continent against any invasion.
Don't think me mad am not; / Lave
invented the greatest power. To be
exact, have discovered ii. A man who
solves one of natures problems is not
an inventor but a discoVerer. My dis
covery is an invisible power that re-
sists all attack. Don't doubt me be-
fore l have finished. will create
around me a circle that will defend
me and will ask you to try to. touch
me-"
He took a small instrument from
his pocket, and stepping back from
the president, the continued:
when l motion toward you try to
touch me-"
He manipulated springs on the in
strument, then .signaled TO the Pres
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