Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-08
GILBERT PRICE
PROVING HERO:
STOPS TURTLES
By Percy H. Whiting.
/OU never can tell about your
f,aln..a ,-rntiI IL anh.s... ---..

you never can tell about your
heroes until the fighting gets
hot. 1t takes real battle to
bring out real bravery.
Which serves tc introduce Col. Gil
bert Eugene Price, late Of I.eesvile,
Ohio.
Price has been fooliug us all since
he first came-and even before, for
he was sold to the Crackers under
his stage name of Shegg and was ad-
Vertised as an Indian.
G. Eugene came to Atlanta late
last season, pitched a few games and
led the Cracker pitchers at the close
of a disastrous and disgraceful year.
But We all figured 1t chance. THE
old boy was lucky to get by" was
the way the fans Put it.
w HEN, we got ready to figure this
years team-which we did most
of last winter-nobody placed Price
at all.
"GiPs a good boy" the experts all
said, but he's too light for this
league"
But Bill Smith decided to let him
report and he managed to stick until
the season opened-and ever since.
After the sea son had run six weeks
or so somebody observed that Price
was leading the Southern League
pitchers. 1t was an awful shock.
But everybody discounted it,
They've taken him out in time 10
save his record" was the opinion
Then Prices hand went bad and
everybody looked for the gate. But
they haven't seen il yet, nor has Gil
bert After a bit his paw came around
and he has kept right on pitching
good ball
Now Gilbert is admitted to be the
best Atlanta pitcher, and while he
does not lead the Southern League,
he is not far behind. He may lead
1t yet if che Crackers keep on playing
ball behind him.
V ESTERDAY, for example. Price
jumped in and held the Turtles
safe after Gentleman had retired with
his "tummy" a bit out of whack and
Paul MLsser had been driven to
Washington, D. c.. via the bench.
OF course the Crackers gave Price
some helpful support yesterday They
made mess of hits and folded bril-
liantly. The infield was right on It's
toes Bisland and Alperman made
phenomenal plays, while Wally Smith
pulled one of the old-time bare hand
ed stop things that separated the
Turtles from several runs they were
entitled to. Ara the Crackers won,
u to 4.
RILL SMITH is making his sixty
~ leventh attempt to strengthen his
pitching staff by releasing Musser and
signing Carl Thompson.
If Carl can win for the Crackers
this IS great move-not only for
the obvious reason that the Crackers
need pitcher who can win, but for
the added reason that Carl is a former
University Of Georgia hurler and viii
be immensely popular with the large
Red and Black contingent in Atlanta.
Carl is slated to hurl his first game
as Cracker Co-day. With the ire
mendous batting support that he can
generally count on from the Crack
ers he ought to win a lot of ball
games
CONSISTENCY and true-to-form-
ness have been commendabie
qualities of the Crackers this year
Before the season started we all
agreed that if the pitchers and the
catchers came clean" we had a pen
nant winner.
Seven ighths of the weakness this
season has been in the batteries
Smith has tried time and again to
strengthen.
At last the catching staff seems
fairly strong. But the box still causes
uneasiness. However. all the hurlers
have shown a lot Of stuff laNely. now
that Musser can be counted out and
If Thompson proves a winner the
Crackers will go some