Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-22
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MUST SUPPORT
VOLS BURDEN
Manager Schwartz Is Worried
Over 0utfeId and InfeId
Material in Camp.
RICKEY HASN'T MADE GOOD
St. Louis Leader Fails to Deliver
Any of the Promising Men
as Per His Pledge.
NASHVILLE, TENN, March21.-

NASHVILLE, TENN, Marchs21.-
N Topheavy with pitchers, yet
sans outfielders and sans in
| f1elders, Bill Schwartz's 1914 Vols are
wabbling along through the training
stunts. making a brave effort TO get
into shape while Godfather Branch
| Hickey is asleep at the switch
Branch sprang a lot of fancy talk
on Schwartz while the latter was at
the st. Petersburg training camp of
the Browns about how he expected to
/ be able to hand over a lot of prom
Using youngsters to the Vols this sea-
son, so they could put up a tough bat
tie for the Kavanaugh flag. But
either Rickey's youngsters are not as
promising as Branch had imagined,
or he is humping into a lot of trou-
BILE in patching up his regulars, for
nothing has drifted into the Vols
camp from Florida.
Schwartz has made a desperate eff
fort to buy Second Baseman Ireland
from the Philadelphia Nationals and
to persuade the Dodgers to turn back
Wilbur Kraft. who last year played
such iam-up ball around first base for
the Pelicans But the Phillies have
asked too much money for Ireland
too much for the Vols treasury-and
although National Commissioner Gar
ry Hermann has set at rest al,
doubts about the right of Nashville
to Kraft's services should he be turn
ed back, the Brooklyn club seems in
no hurry to get rid of this promising
voungster.
Promising Younsster Sick.
A deal is on foot to land a young
ster for third base who is just now
o,.f, I,
camp-that is, he was tearing things
up until malaria jumped straddle of
his neck. and Schwartz is skittish
about paying regular money for sick
ball players. There are too many
sick" ones on hand already that cost
very little TO pay a Wheelbarrow full
of money for another one.
The glooms have certainly put the
kibosh on the Vols 1914 prospects.
and unless some heroic remedies are
employed Immediately the Schwartz
men seem doomed 10 start last and
finish last. after all their proud boasts
of setting the circuit afire with the
hickey discards
Dave Callahan has at last blown
into camp after long vigil at the
sckbed of his father at the Callahan
homestead in Seneca. III. But echo
answers, Where" concerning Bert
King. the former Lookout y-chaser.
If William j. Burns was not so busy
unraveling murder mysteries at At
lanta he might well be employed in
discovering the whereabouts Of King
and also Sloan. whom Hickey prom
ised to Schwartz.
Pinch McCabe, although he has
canned the holdout stuff and come to
terms, has never come to Nashville.
Pinch is one of the veterans of the
International League, and may have
to be used after all If the bottom
should fall out of the Sloan deal
Schwartz could also use a pair of
Catchers to some advantage, for
Red" Smith, who graduated from the
Kitty League, and Bill Chenault, the
Gallatin boy who is doing a come
back stunt, will never have much sue
cess heading off base stea lers in the
Southern unless they carry horse
shoes
The crop OF slab artists looks
good! That's the only redeeming
feature in the Vols training. Rem
fer. the big Canadian Lacquer is dis
playing a staple and fancy assortment
of shoots and curves, and. with his
knowledge of the game. should de
Velop into one of the reliable box ar
lists. Forest More and Bernie Bo
land. veterans Of last seasons fling
ing squad, are setting a fast clip for
the other recruits to follow, and both
look to be fit for a grueling cam
paign.
Tom Cantwell, the Terre Haute boy,
is still on the holdout list, but at
the rate the other slab candidates are
going the Vols may be able to get
along without him The pitchers are
giving Schwartz no worry at@all, but
the infield and outfeld have made
him age at least ten years