Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-08
NIL TON REED,
BIG Lacquer,
e JUST A KID
Swift Sccess With PhiIIes Has
Failed to Turn Head Of For
mer Marist ColIegian.
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of the curves"
The abstracting business keeps
Milton fairly busy. and then there is
the social branch of the winter sea-
son.
If 1t were not for an implied condi-
ton in paragraph of this document,
l would ramble on and say lot about
Mr.. Reed being a young man OF ex-
ceedingly pleasing personality, as
tonishingly good looking, and dressed
with care and discrimination. Being
tacitly bound by paragraph 2, l must
rehaln from al this.
But Il must be that Mr.. Reeds SO e
cial relaxation demands a good deal
of time and attention. Most bal
players put on weight in the off sea
SON Mr.. Reed admits that he has
lost wo pounds since he stepped out
of a Philly uniform last October l
| offer this evidence for what 1t Is
worth.
Besides baseball, abstracting and
society, Mr.. Reed is a crack basket
ball player, and in his Marist days
he was a pole-vaulter of note; an
accomplishment, by the way, that de-
mands about as much Of an athlete
as any one sport can recall Off
hand
"Of course, read other things,
Mr. Reed says, but this chap O.
Henry seems to have 1t on the rest
of them when it comes to hitting in
the pinches. l never worked him
into tight place that he didn't come
through with the punch. He sort of
knows how to kid you along until he
gets you where he wants you, and
then he cuts loose"
That, take it, Is pretty fair esti
mate of o. Henry's gift.
But ball playing hasn't got to the
work a day stage with Milton Reed
He still finds the same JOY in the
sport that makes you think watch
ing Matty on the slab that there's
nothing on earth the Old Master
| would rather be doing than play
I ing ball.
The kids in the vicinity Of No. PAT
| West Peachtree profit by this ar
rangement. Let them start a game
on the vacant lot in the next block
north, across the street and more
than likely you will find Milton Reed
on the coaching line Sometimes he
| supplies "reg'lar league" ball for the
| game, and once in a while he brings
| out his pet bat, made for him by the
Louisville Slugger people; a short
| thick weapon, as big as the law al
| lows at the business end, and i'm.
pressing you as being very heavy
| for young man of $50 pounds tC
| swing.
And Milton will take a deal OF
! pains showing Irving Jordan (age6
| 81, how to dispose his hands in bat
| ting, and the way to hold a ball tt
| curve it, or Of the youngster Is ar
| embryo catcher) how to use the
short-arm peg that spins the pill
down to second as light as a feather
as opposed to the hand breaking
| heavy BALI hurled by certain wide
| arm" throwers.
| This is all good fun for Milton; and
| the kids-well, you can imagine what
| the kids think of a lesson from q
| real big Lacquer. You know what yoJ
would have thought, say, a dozen OF
| twenty years ago-what?
| Kids have a way of their own wher
1t comes TO sizing a fellow up. They
are instinctively direct-sometimes
| aggravatingly so-in their estimates
| They are candid and not overly tender
! of feelings But Milton Reed should
shake hands with himself on the
| jury's verdict.
why, he amt a bit like q bis
Lacquer, 'cept'n the way he pickles
| that old pill" say the kids. He dom
| talk tough, nor chew tobacco, and
| he'll stop any time to talk to a kid
Why, he's just sort of big kid. him
| self-even If he is a big leaguer!"