Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-12
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

The schedule situation in the Southern
league is goat ,getter.
It is possible to arrange things so that
Atlanta, Birmingham and Montgomery get
the worst of it year after year-or that
any three clubs get stung.
1t works like this The president APP
points three men on the schedule COM
mittee. Then he excuses himself from
attending the meeting and sends a league
mogul in his place These four frame up
a schedule that gives them all the best
of it.
But then they need one more vote
To get it they throw some sort of sop
to one other club-shorter mileage or
something of that sort-the, sort of sop
that is thrown to Nashville by the pres
ent schedule. That gives them five votes
and majority.
A league president can hand this thing
out year after year, so long as he is given
power to name the schedule committee.
The president of the Southern league
has been handing it to Atlanta year after
year.
Oh well!
Jake Atz tells EN- in New Orleans that
Catcher Charley Schmidt can't throw
from the plate to the pitchers box and
that steam roller could steal on him.
Tom Downey is kicking on going to
Baltimore, but would be satisfied to re-
port to Louisville.
One of the hold-outs on the North
western league is Umpire NanHaltren
When George settles back in the traces
it would be a hefty job to move him.
Rafael Almeida, former Baron. offered
Al Demaree, former Gull, good con-
tract to go to Cuba and pitch games, but
McGraw refused to let him go, Wise Nc
Graw.
Earl Blackburne, the Pirate catcher
who has had diphtheria, is recovering.
We always. supposed this diphtheria was
largely chlldrens disease, but we shall
have to enlarge the classification now and
make it children and ball players.
The, Giants come from the heart of the
corn belt-most of them. For instance:
Doyle, Fletcher and Wilson from Illinois,
Crandall and Devore from Indiana, Hart
ley and Merkle from Ohio and Tesreau
from Missouri Then we always did hear
that Jim Thorpe was some performer with
the corn, too; only not the kind that
comes in sacks.
Shreveport and Little Rock may have
baseball after all. They have been offered
places in a Southwestern league, along
with Sprin gtield, Mo, Joplin MuSkogee,
Oklahoma City and Fort Worth.
Umpires are going to tog up next sea-
son like battleships. They will wear
aluminium RIB protectors, a harveyized
steel chest guard, concrete kneecaps,
leather toe guards, binders and hustle.
John Dobbs would have bought Joe
Dunn for the Montgomery team if Bill
Smith hadn't beaten him to it.
Nashville fans believe Schwartz has
dug up rising star in Frank Goalby,
from the Gainesville club, of the X. l. T.
league. He is alleged to have every
thing-which is plenty.
President Hirsig for his willingness to
sell his claim on Harry Welchonce to At
| lanta. They say Harry is too good a
| player to let loose But then, he's very
expensive, thinks Hirsg to himself. And
Smith win land him-if he doesn't stick
The United States league will put a
| team in Brooklyn. And right after Char
ley Ebbets built new park, too File
upon EN-,
Ad Brennan diphtheria victim last
year, has written Manager Doom that he
is none the worse for his attack and is
ready, strange to relate, for the season
to begin.
Rucler, Raglan and Allen, of the Brook
| Ign team, will report at Hot Springs
February II.
Ty Cobb says he'll sure get that SIS.
600 he's holding out for-only it's not
$4,000.
Ed Walsh has written Manager Cal
| lahan that he Is in better condition now
than ever before in his life.