The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-15
MarkIe Ready To Ship

Bill Rariden, field manager of the Crackers, seems to think the New York Yankees claim to Cliff Markle is all bosh. Bill an- nounced Thursday that the At lanta drop ball expert was mak- ing all his plans to leave the club Monday for Cincinnati, where he goes to join the Reds. The At lanta management seems to be taking it for granted that Judge Landis will rule in their favor anent the Markle deal.
 In exchange for Cliff the At lanta club is due to get a raft of players. only one having been named, thus far, however. Rari- den says that Napier is coming to the Crackers from Redland. and that he should win four games out of every five he pitches in this league.
 This will make Markle's third attempt to land a regular job in the majors. The other attempts were made with the Yankee club in the American league.
 Graff Gives Traynor Boost
 Fred Graff, veteran infielder of the Martin circuit, who is now holding down a berth in capable fashion for the Crackers. had something mighty nice to say about Pie Traynor yesterday. Fred said that without doubt the Birmingham shortstop was out of his class in this league. and should be up there right now Tagging grounders in the American league. There are two great shortstops in this league this year" said Freddie. One is The only difference is that one is coming mighty fast and the other is going mighty slow. Traynor is the meteor. Tommy McMillan is the lad who is giving Father Time such a battle. Tom my is responsible for the great work of the Memphis club and Traynor is responsible in large measure for the Birmingham suc- cess. Figure it out for yourself. Memphis has a great shortstop and she's in first place. Birming- ham has q great short fielder and shes in second place"
 ira OsToole's Little Yarn
 Jack OToole, the umps, comes
 
 nut, the eX-umps, which has never been sprung in this section before. Jack says he was with Scotty in Mobile the second year Scotty broke into the league. "Scotty was raving that year, said Jack, and even after he got back to the hotel he would take his troubles to his room and con- tinue to bawl the players out.
 "'Buckets of blood Order me pound of raw steak for supper, Bill, I eat human beings aliveN These are some of the threats Scotty would get out of his sys- tenn in a loud tone. I'll teach those suckers to touch the base. If they don't do it tomorrow I'll run eW III eho S"' ' ~ " 'emrt
 An old negro woman. who worked at the hotel heard Scotty raving, and she fought shy of Chess when when she saw him coming. She thought he was a regular man-eater. That night after dinner Scotty started ray- ing again. He said he'd kill a dozen or so ball players if they didn't touch the bases. The old negro woman heard 1t all and took it all in. I saw her snooping around our room door with her eyes about to pop out of her head.
 The next day I left for New Orleans and Bill Kerin came in to team with Scotty as umpire. The frightened woman thought Bill was a ball player instead of an umpire. That afternoon as Bill was preparing to go to the mark. she followed him through the lobby of the hotel and out on to the street. Reckoning him down an alley. she whispered to Bill. sMistah, fo' de Lawds sake touch ali dem bases today. fin yo' doesn't Ans done heard dat vile man say he was gwine kill yo' an drink yo' bleed.'
 Tt was. too good for Bill to keep and he told me the whole story the next time we were paired together"
 Indian to Quit Tech
 Joe Guyon. the powerful In dian, who stood southern football fans on their respective ears a few seasons ago by his brilliant work in the Georgia Tech back field. tells me he will not return to Tech this year as assistant to