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

With its woman club owner gone, the
american association hasn't a claim to
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 Class AA Yes, indeed,
the sort of promotion that comes from
going to smaller league of higher clas-
sihcation.
Not a member of the st. Louis Brown
club is hold-out. They're ashamed to.
Chick Gandil has started spring train
ing.
Bert Daniels. of the Highlanders, is
working this winter as a civil engineer
tinue his civility through the summer
season also.
Hughe Jennings says that Jean Dubuc
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 10 initiate all the
Washington American league ball players
into the fraternity in order to make it
all right for them to use the fraternity
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 noseless.
Probably the fans will be supplied with
gags.
The City of Mexico has a. baseball
league They play games once week
aFr;..,
Nashville boy who plays with the Braves,
was willing to sign, is fake. McTtgue
says he Will report first, sign later. He
wants slightly larger stipend
Dutch" stenglse is holding out on
many" must have forgotten that Ebbets
is building a new ball park this winter.
The Nashville ball park is under water,
where it is likely to remain until the
season is well under way, as it did last
year It's a wonder the Nashville folks
wouldn't build a park on dry land.
Judge Kinsley, of the deserton and non
support court in Philadelphia, in handing
down ruling that Dan Bradley, New
York State league player, must pay his
wife SO a week said II don't care what
kind Of professional you are. If you
season you better rustic around and get
rustic
Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, was the
greatest pitcher the first nine of the Bos
ton Latin school ever had, while James A.
Gallivan, Bostons street commissioner,
played second base for Harvard in 1888
The baseball players fraternity is go
ing to fight for a rule that a baseball
player is free to sign where he pleases
when his contract with a club, ends Let
the club owners give the players long
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 Nir
ginia Military institute.
The Brooklyn club has signed q brother
of lack Wheat. lack, 1t 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
a preliminary boiling out is. denied by
the Atlanta club is the only one in the
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 Fogers new Atlantic City
hotel there will be a suite of rooms for
umpires. 1t 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 Donln 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.