Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

Diamond News and Gossip
Miller Huggins will take an osteopath
with him on his next training trip. He
believes that stunt would put il all over
carrying dentist, q chiropodist or even
a trainer,
| II is not generally known. but John
McGrRw once asked waivers on Marquard
and would have fired him off the club
except for the fact that Griffith refused
to waive
Marty O'Toole also came near being a
| waiver victim, When he was with st.
Paul Mike Kelly tried TO can him. Later
he changed his mind, held him through
Miller Higgins is giving his catchers
moro practice on pop fouls than on any
thing else It's good scheme, too
rnsy sTS n saTS 70 handle ana IT makes
one.
Ivey .Wingo is .practicing throwing with
his left hand, though he is normally a
| ding hunts in front Of tho plate he can
| slip his glove off and throw left-handed
| with better speed than he can pick up
the pill, turn and throw right-handed
Derril Pratt is the official Instructor
Of the Browns in the noble art Of hook
sliding
Ernie Walker, late of Montgomery, now
with the Browns. has split a hand and
can't practice at all
-. What hangs up the OLesry deal is that
| Charley will not report TO the Browns
! so long as his sale by Indianapolis in
cludes provision that he is to revert to
| the Indians at the end Of this year The
| idea Of going from Indianapolis to the
Browns and back to Indianapolis is more
than he can bear
Umpire Bull Perrins is suffering
with locomotor ataxia and will never
work again
This will be a great year for children
catcher. fohn Bassler aged f;sO II, "a while
Acosta, the Cuban outhelder with Wash
ington' is only Is
CAD Coles, ex-Clemsen, ex-Augusta
and Montgomery, will be with the Ell
mira N. Y team this season.
Dutch schaefer is washington's only
hold-out- And Germany isn't exactly vio-
lent about II.
Henry Green, Clark Griffim's right
hand servant at Charlottesville. lost his
| laundry ticket the other day and the
ehink turned him down when he tried 70
| blarney his laundry package out Of soak
! So Henry departed, returning anon with
| hfteen Washington ball players, who ran
out tho laundrymen and opened packages
until they found the right one. Where
upon Henry paid. the regiment departed
ing.
Ray Chapman re working on his slides
this spring and will go after Clyde Milan
when the season opens
! AL Klawitter seems TO have cipched his
| job with the Detroit team. Murder. how
he must have improved.
George KahlkofS-you all know ''Kahl'
will manage the Hopkinsville team this
They are tearing Gown the standc in the
park OF the New York Americans. The
Aanks VIII use the Polo grounds this year.
George stallinss is trying to get Al
Shaw from Toronto.
Now that all the players Of the Blu.
Grass league have been declared free
agents the wretched truth has leaked
out-nObody wants EN-. anyhow.
The Reds have taken an option on the
Birmingham park as training ground
/ for next season.
Bresnahau says the reason he Joined
the Cubs instead of the Pirates is that
he believed the Cubs have the better
chance Of getting I'm the next worlds
series.
There are. SAYS Tommy Clarke. Of
! the Cincinnati team. two varieties OF
athletes in the national pestime ban
players and pitchers
Joe Woods brother Pete. has signed
with Brockton. He is young but big
Yesterdays tremendous wind made
fielding. especially Of high hit balls. ire
missed one pop foul that was blown
smack out Of his paws.
Hub Perdue is a game old gink. When
his teammates kicked away two runs
for him in the second inning he whlrled
in and struck out three men in a row
| Heating is wonder on bases. The
man who stole 81 last year will pilfer
more this year. He worked a double
steal neatly with Welchonce and il was
the keystone that impelled Catcher Brown
10 huTl wild
That Boston team Is a freak. a wonder
a marvel-and' SAD to relate a frost
rhc visit of the Boston team, Was on
IJoyed IN Atlanta II is a pleasure to
see the crackers playing big league club
they can beat
O. tue olJ p~ycHe'oe> stuff Haon. gone
iNi"hs H Monday game the Crackers
would have Won The series