Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-11
BILLY SMITH
SIZES UP 1874
TEA|NLEADERS
Cracker Manager Talks About
= All the Southern League
Clubs but His Own.
Continued From Page II.


first time IN the history Of the pre.en.
league.
Johnny has got to be we'll up In
the race, and probably he will be. He
la mighty good manager. and he
starts off with a much better layout
than you would expect to hang over
from a tail ender.
Bill Lindsay, Starr, Kutina and
knapp make a classy inf1eld: North
ern and Kyle are good outflelders; he
has a bunch OF good pitchers. and
Adams. Higgins and Vance make up
q fno catching force. look to see
Johnny start with a rush
Finn Is Cleaning House.
From all I can hear Mike Finn
won't have a corporal's guard left of
the 1918 bunch in Memphis. l un-
derstsnd he will keep Merritt, Love
and STANLEY, which means he will
have to build his 1914 machine from
the ground up.
Mike is a good one to do that, but
1t can't be denied he had a good deal
of help last year. Robertson, Stock
and Jacobson all might be counted as
emergency help, you might say
Charley Schmidt was tower OF
strength back OF the wood, and
great steadier for the team. Mike
may nave 10 40 Will youngsters tnlS
time, and it will be something of a
proposition
No Cinch for 3. Lord
Coming to Bris Lord. who takes
over Mikes team at Mobile, we find
right away that Paulet and Starr are
gone, and with them just about half
the brains of the 1913 Gulls. Stock is
gone, too, SO Lords infield will need
as much patching as ours, which is
some patching. Now, IL Fred Smith,
the Boston pitcher, won't report-and
| hear rumors to that effect-Briscoe
will be UP against 1t for fair.
Lord never has managed before,
but he has had a lot of training I'M
der some mighty fine managers, and
he ought to make a good leader.
The Other New MoeuI.
Moose Mccormick is the other
new comer in our midst, and il he
manages a ball club the way he has
been picking the phi in New York he
ought to make a great hit in Chatta
nooga.
They call him Handsome Harry
because he really is good looking and
very tidy dresser, something of the
Beau Brummell off the field
Chattanooga loses Coveleskie,
, which is some loss. and, of course,
Kid H;iberfeld isn't with tho team
Harry will not lack good pitching.
however with Kroh, Summers and
Slime. That boy Howell is a dandy.
too. liked his work fine every time
saw him last year Harry should
do pretty well with his layout.
What About Schwartz?
81 suppose Bill Schwartz must be
considered manager of Nashville I'M
til the row up there is settled. | don't
know a thing about that. and | don't
know Schwartz very well, never hav-
ing seen him much except on the field
SO far as his personal welfare is
concerned, 7 understand he has very
profitable cigar store in Nashville, so
7 guess he could keep on eating, even
il he lost out in the row with Hirsig
And the Crackers?
81 said. to begin with" Billy con
cluded, that I wasn't figuring my
lob either the toughest or the easiest
in the league. AS to our prospects in
1s1t-well, ] will just repeat what
said a couple of weeks ago;
THE Crackers can't finish lower
than eighth unless some more clubs
get into the circuit during the sum
mer"
Which, for mogul of Mr., Smiths
cautious temperament, Is saying u
good deal.