Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

But this Is TO exclude from con
sideration a whole host Of perfectly
good star players who We're on the
scene before this past decade began.
at once hear more than one reader
warmly urge. And that is true. for
thousands must still recall the great
diamond work Of such ancients as
Solomon and Henley Of Tech. Gum.
Of Mercer. Sitton and Maxwell Of
Clemson, TiChenor, Of Auburn. san
ford and Short Of Georgia, and stlll
many others whose names scintillated
in their day quite a brightly as do
those Of any Of the present college
stars.
MY reason may not strike some as
AVA a good one but / think II VIII
hold water. It's this way.
This team is being picked NOW,
not ten or more years ago. Wen,
NOWADAYS all college baseball
teams are much more thoroughly and
productivity coached than they were a
dozen years and more ago. In that
day no college players OF the south
were taught the inside game as II iS
pounded and hammered into them to-
day. In other words the baseball ~
that age was not far enough advanced
10 hold it's own with what IL is to-
day IN college circles. and the college
player OF fifteen years ago didn't real
lv know baseball He may have been
up to his times, but his times weren't
up to the times Of to-day.
But inside ball cuts a mighty big
figure in the baseball game Of to-
day. and iu the successful play OF
every big player now grazing the dia-
mond II IL not alone "a strong arm,
a good eye or fine mechanical hand
skill that makes player Of the 'front.'
row today. the headwork he displays
IA tremendously big factor, And =
is largely because the college players
know % much more about the Inside
game nowadays that So many more
Of them are called into professional
ranks and make good there than used
to be the case years ago.
ID TT while this narrowing Of the
ID horizon helps me Co some extent
81 viii not take the reader long TO
discern that have cut ont FOR my
self a real life sized Job. The teams
that some fifteen or more colleges
have turned out within the last ten
vears total about 1850. and as each ~
them carried about a dozen men, !
will be expected 90 look over the
claims OF something like lsuO play
ers
still have managfed % find a
much shorter cut than this. Az !
have had 20 do. after an, was 20 con
suit the ALI Southerns for the past
Ten wears and make selection from
the 100 or more names that these re-
veaIed. for 10 stands 90 reason thaI "
a PLAYER was not good enough 90 make
the All Southern % the year or years
in which he played. he could hardy
expect 20 be awarded on an All-Tims
All Southern position
IT will also be well TO explain that I
have in no case Def what "a player
has since done on the diamond, good
or bad. sway me in the least Tn pick
ing PLAYERS. What some 0f them are
to-day in the big leagues has nothing
20 do with what they We're as col
Iegians. and 70 Is strictly on their
merits as college piaycr7 tnat ] nave
chosen them. SIN. il IS Interesting 10
notice that quite number OF those
whose names are 90 be found on this
mythical team have made "a name Tor
themselves much higher nap since the
day IN which they gayorted on the
campus
The list includes Pratt OF Alabama.
Derrick % Georgia smith or Auburn,
Mitchell o. Mississippi and LATTE ana
MCMILLAN Of Tech And then there
are stili others who came within an
inch Of making this Au-Time team
who have likewise met With much
success higher up such are Cali
houn. Mayer. Brooks and Woodward
OF Tech. not Co mention Harry iol-
land. % the same college. who has
received offers from hale dozen Inn
jcr league teams SupuHEur. Gus.l,
smith and Mcdowell OF Alabama.
Brooks. Cooper Redfsru end Thomp-
son % Georgia Weemr Manning Nc