Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-22
PITCHING STAFF
MUST SUPPORT
VOLS BURDEN
Manager Schwartz Is Worried
Over 0utfeId and In6eId
Material in Camp,
HICKEY HASN'T MADE GOOD
St. Louis Leader Fails to Deliver
Any of the Promising Men
as Per His Pledge,
TENN, March I'll

NASHVILLE, TENN, March I'll
| " Topheavy with pitchers, yet
! sans outfielders and sans in
| fielders, 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 trpu-
| BILE in patching up his regulars, for
nothing has drifted into the Vols
amp from Florida
| Schwartz has made 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 jam-up ball around first base for
the Pelicans. But the Phllies 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 Krafts services should he be turn
ed back the Brooklyn club seems in
no hurry to get rid Of this promising
youngster.
Promising Youngster Sick.
| A deal is on foot to land a young
ster for third base who is just now
! tearing things up in ma ior league
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 a long vigil at the
| sickbed Of his father at the Callahan
/
answers, "Where?" concerning Bert
King, the former Lookout fly 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
| Used 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 pair of
catchers to some advantage, for
Red" Smith, who graduated from the
Kitty League, and Bill Chenault, the
Gallatin boy who is doing come
| back stunt, will never have much sue
cess heading off base stealers 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 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 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 outfield have made
/ him age at least ten years.