Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21

New York, where, among other
things, he saw some baseball
Wherefore Joe is as full of tips and
ideas as a spring training trip is of
Charley Horses.
Joe will now lead off
Never get the idea that Frank
Chance is q failure as manager of the
Yanks, began Joe. 81 saw them play
few times, and they look like a reg
ular ball club, even now. Next year
they are bound to look a whole lot
better-maybe enough better to get
into the first division. Anyway, they'll
spoil a lot of chances for the good
ones.
Il saw the Yanks trim st. Louis,
which is no great Job, but they did 1t
in workmanlike style. Then I saw
them lick Detroit, with Ty Cobb in
full career, which is something else
again, now, or any other time.
Joe Likes the New Hands.
Chance has got hold of some
mighty good looking material. This
chap Maisel-the expensive guys
going to be a marvellous ball player,
or I'll miss my guess. He's one bird
of an infielder, and he can hit-wel
the paper this morning "ives him
triple and three singles with a base
on balls, in five times up.
Then there's a fellow named Gill
hooley, en- outfielder. l had heard he
was fast on his feet, but, say-he's a
speed marvel. 1t sounds like lese
majestic, or something Of that sort, TO
gay Ty Cobb is no faster on the bases,
but I'll just take. a chance and say
that very thing. of course. this fell
how hasn't the experience yet but he
certainly has the speed.
He and .Maisel are rather short
and stocky,. both built for speel
Maisel steals third as readily as l
ever saw 1t done"
Advantage of Stealing Third.
Wherl upon Joe launched into a dis
Bertation of the compare tive ease
with which third base might be stolen.
Most spectators-and most ball
players, too" said Joe. seem to have
an idea that because the peg to third
IS shorter by about 36 feet that base
is harder to swipe than second.
"The reverse is true, in nearly all
cases. The runner can take three
times the lead off second he can off
hrst, particularly with a left-hand
pitcher working. Then. with a right
hand batter up, the catcLer's throw
IS necessarily slow and hampered
And It takes just as good peg to get
p man at third as at second"
Donlin to Manage Skeeters.
Joe says there is a lot of talk about
Mike Donlin's approach manage
rial connection with the Jersey cry
Shelters, the club that has Joe Agler
now, and will keep him in spite of
drafts and other winds that blow.
Mike is a very popular citizen,
Joe said. Folks up East never will
forget the style and dash of Sir Mi
chaePs batting with the Giants, nOta-
bly, in 1907, when he came to bat in
the ninth inning on three separate
and distinct occasions, with the bases
full and two out, and cleaned up with
q home run.
Mike is in good shape. too. He is
faster than in some years, and ought
20 make a good example for the
Shelters"
Speaking of batting, Joe says the
port-side reapers in the Big Show are
making life a burden to the fork
hand pitchers, who in former seasons
have pestered them very materially.
Hit Curve Balls Now.
Their plan is quite simple. They
simply wait for curve and then
pickle IT. And they certainly are muir
dering the curves.
"Ty Cobb picked out one Of Joe
Boehling's pet hooks the other day
and knocked all the kink out Of it
with several men on bases, too. BY
the way the talk goes that BOehling
is curving himself out of the Ameri-
can League Four out of five of his
pitches are curves, and no pitcher
particularly a left -hander-can keep
that up long OF course, Joe was sue
cessful for a time while he was run
ming up that string of eleven straight
victories. But by the time the wise
old sluggers had looked him over
bit he didn't look so tough. Now he'll
have to pitch his arm off to hold his
own"
Vaughn an Illustration.
Which recalls the circumstance Of
New York and Washington in the
American League, then went to Kan
sas City in the American AssOCia-
ton, and finally was sold to the Cubs
b month ago.
The writer became well acquainted
with Big Jim and his pitching pecu
liarities while the sOuthpaw was in
Kansas City He had a wonderful fast
ball, with a most amazing hop to it,
and it was deadly effective, particu-
Iarly against left hand hitters Big
Claude Rossman was so afraid Of that
fast ball that he batted against
Vaughn, as the saying goes, with one
foot in the wal y bucket" All Jim
had to do was TO shoot the first one
up fast, high and bit inside and
Claude's dog was on its way
But Jim also had a dfnky curve,
and he was very fond of It. The
catchers had hard work making him
use his fast one, and he wasn't any
TOO lucky in the A. A, though he did
pitch a no-hit no-run game against
Toledo, whiting twelve batsmen and
walking seven.