Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-18
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

With its woman club owner gone. the
distinction left.
Joe Berger has signed his White sox
contract
BY being sold to the Pacific Coast
league, Rowdy Elliott won a promotion
from Glass A to Glass AA. Yes, indeed,
the sort of promotion that. comes from
going to smaller league of higher clas-
Sitcation.
Not a member of the st. Louis Brown
club is a hold-out. They're ashamed to.
Chick Gandil has started spring train
Bert Daniels. of the Highlanders. is
The umpires are DESTROYS that he con-
tinue his ciyility through the summer
season also
ought to produce another successful year
in the big show before he is entitled to
get puffed up.
The members of the Delta Chi frater-
nifty of the University of Virginia deny
that they have decided to initiate all the
Washington American league ball players
all right for them to use the fraternity
house this spring
A bill to legalize Sunday ball playing
by amateurs in the state of New York
has been introduced. 1t provides that
the games must be played in the after
noon and that they must be noiseless.
Probably the fans will be supplied with
gags.
The City of Mexico has a baseball
league. They play games once a week.
The report that Pud McTigue the
Nashville boy who plays with the Braves,
was willing to sign is a fake. McTigue
says he will report first. sign later. He
wants slightly larger stipend
pr Dutch" stenglss sod is h,olding o,9 out con on
many" must have forgotten that Ebbets
The Nashville ball park is under water,
where it is likely to remain until the
season is well under way, as it did last las,
wouldn't build a park on dry land.
Judge Kinsley, of the desertion and non
support court, in Philadelphia, in handing
down a ruling that Dan Bradley, a New
York State league player, must pay his
wife SO week. said: II don't care what
kind of a professional you are. If you
can't make enough money during the ball
season you better rustic around and get
a year, round job" Bradley agreed to
rustic"
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston. was the
greatest pitcher the first nine of the Bos-
ton Latin school ever had, while James A
Gallivan, Boston's street commissioner
played second base for Harvard in 1888,
The baseball players fraternity is go
ing to fight for rule that baseball
player is free to sign where he pleases
when his contract with club ends. Let
time contracts if they want to hold their
men," say the players,
Charles Faust is still holding out on
both big leagues.
Buck" Hooker of the Bristol club, has
been appointed baseball coach Of the Vir-
ginia Military institute.
The Brooklyn club has signed a brother
of lack Wheat. lack, it will be re-
called, won fame first in the Southern
The report that several of the old-time
Barons would be sent to, Hot Springs for
preliminary boiling out is denied by
President Baugh. 1t Will be recalled that
South that ever tried it-and the Crack
ers finished last that year.
Maybe Charley Faust is the man who
is backing the United States league. He
has the nerve, if not the money.
At Horace Fogel's new Atlantic City
hotel there will be a suite of rooms for
umpire~ - is in the cellar.
Red Doom is at Southern Pines, ar
ranging for the visit his team will make
there this spring
Charley Frank will probaly send his
Pelicans to Tampa this spring for three
exhibition games with the Cubs.
The reason Mike Donlin went to the
Phillies was that Barney Dreyfuss didn't
consider him worth $4,000 a year, and
didn't have the heart to cut his salary.