The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-25
GABDY STREET MAY
 QUIT NASHVILLE
Former Battery Mate of Walter Johnson May Lead
 Home Town Team

Nashville fans are turning somersaults following the changes of Gabby Street s mind The former battery mate of Wal ter Johnson doesn't know whether he wants to receive for the Vols this year or manage a semi-pro outfit around his home town First, he says he will, and then he says he won't
 The situation is placed before the Vol fans thusly by Blinkey Horn, writing in the Nashville Tennessean:
 They have to get up mighty early in the morning to get more different kinds of notions in their heads than Gabby Street. Three times since the wobbly season of 1915 came to a frayed finish the garralus receiver for the Vols has changed his mind First of all he swore by all the baseball gods that he would get back to nature on his Pennsylvania farm and forget that he ever acted as battery mate for Walter Johnson, or any other hurler.
 Then it was that Gabby dreamed dreams of starting a semi-pro outfit close to his home at Newberry Station, Pa, getting his idea from Harry Welchonce who picked up a beer keg full of dollars in | L. out of commission for several rounds. Ac- cording to Gabby, to be a manager of a semi-pro outfit was the life A regular picnic from seasons start to season end. And so on and soforth.
 But here when the Vols began to make motions like swapping Gabby off for Doc Niederk of the Crackers and talked of buying George Hale for awhile in spite of the fact that the Baron backstopper only clubbed at .176 clip, Mir. Street suddenly came to life with the usual line of talk about expecting the best season of my life with the Vols" On top of that Gabby had considerable to say about how anxious he was to hear the umpire's dis honest bark, of longing in his heart for the warm summer sun on his peg ging whip and in general was whooping it up for himself and the Vols to boot.
 So the Vol moguls sat back and breathed comfortably to think that Mr. Street was so enthusiastic as all that. It pleased them not a little.
 But To and behold, yesterday Mir Street changed his tune. It might be well to mention that between his glowing out look on the future and his pessimistic viewpoint of yesterday, there had been sandwiched in a decided slice in the monthly stipend, which MT. Street was wont to draw down last summer. Accord ing to Proxy Shropshire MT. Street claimed he was perfectly satisfied with the salary named when the papers were sent along to him and the Vol mogul gave out the Vol receivers name in the list of those who were lined up for Mir Roy Slippery Ellam
 Now it would appear that Gabby has become completely dissatisfied again over a sentence with the Vols and poured out a dismal story to the local moguls yes terday. Back has he gone to the old theory that he will retire from baseball and either till the Pennsylvania soil, or have it titled for him while he sits back and sees that nobody runs off with the garden seeds and smoked meats.
 Bo all that as it may, it's pretty safe bet that Mir. Street will change his mind after a while and show up with the rest of the receivers when reporting day rolls around. Of course there is a possibility that Gabby is sincere in his intention to let baseball do without him, in some fash ion or another. Sometimes they are sim cere. But not often.
 Granting that he is, the Vols will be forced to do some tall hustling to round up a capable mittman to shoulder the burden behind the platter and not a few receivers of ability have already been hawked off by the big show pilots. They are not so plentiful as they once were.
 Along with the same mail that brought the tale of woe from Mir Street yester- day, came a note from Mir Bill Ellis Colonel mound discard. who failed to manifest any undue amount of pleasure at the terms offered by the Vols Still Mir Ellis admitted that he had heard the war was over and that the warm air in Dixie might do his agm some good, and closed by saying he would think it over and let the Vols know later whether or not he would be willing to pitch at the nrice named