The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-28
AttabOu!
Big Coy1e Shea
YOU'LL NEVER HIT 800 WHEN

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YoUIbNEvER HIT 800 WHEN
cy Jenkins walked up to the plate
With terror in his eye;
He saw three runners waiting for
But o ~ stood &i ca calm and moHonlsss.
Six A A1Sov wnf1 t a"S, G Toss in h disgust gust
To long and wildly shout;
"oh. you'll never hit three hundred when
You're only standing still;
You'll never score the winning run
YOU IN many many s soiissi t Pli money for
You'll never hit three hundred when
You're only standing still"
THE sLUGGlNG KING. =
The greatest slugger in baseball today is Babe Ruth, of the Red
sox. His Home run displacement in one case amounted t a lO as
The Babe fired a homer over the wall in a recent game when the
bags were full and the blow ruined Foil forever. .un,nu .. to the
worth of the Jolt in dollars,
One by one the veterans drop out. wndnre Schultz has quit as
FsfRsssy "a = Ses SEssd' as The '. eolo = In pilot 's
Schultz, like Stark, found that managing his home town club was
quite an undertaking. In fact too much of one.
Flaherty, Schultz and Fohl tossed in the sponge when the gaff
became too excessive, whereas an umpire absorhs it daily sithout a
Bat umpres are supposed to be canOused to criticism and deaf to
chicks EorT s6nstt%s, Is in sR r attrb0 of t Poase fsst So in far aqs that fq tSey dsnt 0g make eRs
it back in a taxi with a 1O-minute start on the peg. But forgetfulness
etp t@' day syP Mrs IS & aGsa5n Newman S1@Dl'e Of Rsr rnaI So sued ID Barde fO Evans 1ns'f for .
thousand berries because, in front Of her house at midnight, he Rugged
and kissed her--and then gave her a quarter. In Tennessee the tipping
THE VETERAN MLLERs.
Speaking Of youth and age in baseball recalls the Minneapolis club
that nss. came to Memphis fnGpi il. 1871 ,s1t, with # sno cantnl0n as boss and Daredevil
Frank P. Coleman was still president of the Memphis Turtles at
the time and was standing at the ticket window with Canh Mn, when the
breaking Joint thsveterans started pinng out of the bus and hobbled for
Coleman was dumtounded at the sight of 50 many graybeards on
lie same club and in an eSasperated manner questioned: Say, do those
Those are only the rockies" replied cantrlor. THE old men
are in the next car"
THE sEvEN.PLAYER EXPERIMENT.
league S' Rss p4oHsn an with ssy Sat f popsla A P plays Successful ia Z SG IN ths se s1siS 4
association this season.
age mind, but it is probable that the joke will be recalled before the
1919 season is under way.
chine in a worthwhile league. From a mathematical standpoint alone
it can only qualify in a so per cent manner with~the player allowance
Figuring 10 per cent additional for the mixture of wear and tear
Among the injured this season, for instance, is Red Smith, who wa
picked to be the leading catcher of the circuit and who worked in on.
enough games to earn his laundry bill.
THE WHY AND WHEREFORE.
Following the successful termination of the war and the resultan
rise in prices of every commodity, the Southern maintained its pre-wa
uniforms, etc. has killed most of the odtime profit attached to a fran
chise until only the keenest sort of maneuvering will enable a magnat
to finish a season with profit.
Therefore the 1919 experiment.
One year of it has been enough, however, and at least five club own
ers in the South will vote for its revision at the annual meeting of tn
A return to the 14-player status will cause a lift in the tax at tn
gate, but the average fan will stand for this added jolt If he gets an equa
thing for the old price when everything else has gone up on the side
Therefore his willingness to come across-providing the clubs do tn
The Memphis owners have found the thing a great handicap an
fight the move and held out stsadfastly until the bitter end. Chick own
ers knew what would happen, and now have seen it in daily life. Gas
along without talent. ~
Our idea of nothing at all to do is to take stock in the printe
knock of an afternoon scribe, who has never been seen in the park thi
bunk to an extreme, for long-distanee doping never brings one in clos
The heat and the general atmosphere surrounding a dump anet
one mentally, however, even to such an extent that one confuses HI
. scribes paid hirenngs"