Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-06
MUSSER WAKES
UP;WELCHONCE
PROVES A HERO
By Percy H. 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 holly by the fans. Now he is
beginning to show them.
Control and confidence have been
the only things lacking in Mussers
repertoir He is gradually acquiring
them both.
King" Brady says that if he had
Musser's speed he would NEVER lose
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 ne
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
4'A against the Lookouts Thursday
and then nearly failed to win a ball
game. That he did win 1t 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 it 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. II 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 a line IL 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 ii 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 1t fell to Harry's
lot to keep it 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 1t 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 1t,
pulled II down and ended the game.
1t was surely a great two-man vic
tory, with Musser and Welchonce the
stars.
IT begins to look as though the
LoOkouts were never to win
game from the Crackers. Thursdays
contest was the seventh straight they
have lost to Smiths men. OF course,
this is a bitter pin 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
ALOT Of the managers, baseball
u 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 of the
game eNpeditiOusly 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
allnG what might otherwise have
been an iutolerably slow game