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*A?C~u«t JOURNAL.
FRIDAY. OCT. 10. 1913.
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WORLD’S BASEBALL SERIES
AS VIEWED BY G. RICE
While the eminent Mr. Mack eome forward this season in pl»e<
possesses n hundred tiiousand dol
lar infield, the equally eminent
Mr. McGrow has $100,000 worth
of pitching flesh to meet it.
So far as pitching i» eoncerned
—that ia, comparative pitching
baaed upon an entire season V
form—thereian't even a debate, f
Directly off the reel McOraw
hat two men to offset Bender and
Plank in Mathewaon and Mar-
quant—a standoff in Mathewaon
against Bender and the best of it
in Marquard against Hank.
And, in addition to this, he has
•at least two others who are far
and away better than Mack 'a
third choice.
Pitching To the Giants.
The pitching problem has been
reversed since the campaign of
1911. Then Hack had three pitch
ers to offf-r against McOraw'a two.
He had Bender, Coombs and
Plank to shoot ngainst Mathew
aon and Marquard—the latter a
twenty two year old youngster.
Now McOraw has four line
pitchers to push ngainst Mack’s
two—so where Mack was strong
er by 33 1-3 per cent in 1911, Mc-
graw is stronger by SO per cent in
1913.
How This Will Work.
McOraw ’a position is this: He
has four fine pitchers who are
blessed with an abundance of
stuff, steady, reliable and ready
to operate at a moment's notice.
He baa a veteran right-hander
—Mathewaon—the wisest pitcher
in baseball; a fine left hander in
Marquard, wonderfully improv
ed over past years in judgment
and control; a mountainous spit-
baller in Tearau, who has appar
ently just iregnined his stride
wise, heftdy, sidearm worker in
Deuaree, who has won more close,
low score games than any other
worker in his league.
Mack’s position ia quite differ
ent. lie has Chief Bender—one
of the grraUet "money” pitchers
that ever pegged the sphere; n
great left-hander in Eddie Plank
—but ono who has passed over
the crest of the hill, and for two
months has been badly punished
in his own circuit -who, at beat,
will be good for ntdy one game
unless be can wedge in a four or
five day rest; anil after these two
a fsir set of youngsters who give
promise hut who nre not to be
rated with any of the four that
McOraw can uaa..
As Adams or A Bedient.
It ia evident unless Mack’*
slugging club can demolish the
Giant defense almeat utterly'that
hia Athletics can hardly expect to
win with only Bender and Plank.
These two will only be good for
four games, and to turn thia trick
they must gather in every start.
Bo unleas Connie can discover
a Babe Adams or a Hugh Bedient
from Shawkey, Bush or Brown—
he ia up against a robust handi
cap—the tame handicap which
crushed the Giants ao terribly
that last game in 1911 when Mm-
thewaon and Marquard had firm)
their final ammunition and there
was no one left to chrrk the
eharge.
If Mark ran produccone young
ster from hia flock able to hold
his own and furnish hia manager
with a third 'iabi-un, the odds
will rest with the Athletics. They
are as good in the field—much
better at bat and »- u .H three first-
class pitch rs will be fortified to
the last word.
I But they must find that third
world icriea pitcher or the Na
tional league is likely to eome
into its own again after a drouth
extending from 1909. - •
of going back, so their meeting
should find them as effective a»
they have ever been—even unto
"the rose sweet dreams of yes
terday”- or a good many hun
dred yesterdays.
Sentiment of the Series.
Ilri&in rests the main sentiment
of the series -the clash between
the two who were stirs ten years
ago.
They ar. the finest w'orld series
types it would be possible to find
--and probably the most effective
outside of Walter Johnston. Ben
der js almost certain to check the
lighter Giant attack, so Mathew
aon has a big day’s work ahead in
facing the harsher batting Mack-
men,
Marquard and Plank.
Hathcwioa and Bender.
When a pair of eanny blokes
like Mathewaon and Bender meet,
the debate must rest and wait for
the box aeore. When two veter
. ana mee- who are masters to every
pitching art—game to the ulti
mate marrow—it U foolish to try
and fi-n-re any further. Strange
ly tnough. although veterans,
both Big Six and the Chief have
McOraw for this series has the
more valuable left hander. He
has a strong, ‘ tall and rangy"
young fellow of twenty-four sea-
me and plenty of experi-nec to
shoot against » veteran in -his
thirty-ninth .year who has been
slipping for over two months.
Plank must come hack to one
o fhia old days to nope with Mar-
quard. For on;- game he might
yet lie aa good as ever; hut as to
thia no man can say. Marquard
ia now in hia prime, confident af
ter his double success last fall and
well beyond hia 1911 work. A
margin of fifteen years makes
quite a difference upon the spike-
chopped field, and where Plank
must almost surely play a one-
day stand the tall Robe should be
good for two game*, and maybe a
third. * , i
Fifty Barrels Of
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industry.
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per cent of the poultry and poul-
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After BcnSrand Matty, Mar-12 to 1 scorea to
piard and Plank have finished against.
their atarta, McOraw has all the Tesreau, after a rickety start,
best of it over the rest of thcjsettlcd down sonic week* ago and
pitching way. Kor hia third game .has been going much Better ever
he has At Demaree or Jeff Tea-Jsinee. Ho ia always a hard man
reau—and it’a merely a guess as to hit, hia main weakness being a
to which man he will pick. I fluttering lack of control at cer-
Of the two, Demaree knows 1 tain stages of the battle,
more about pitching and thw done Both Tesreau and Demaree look
much better work this year. He to be mjieh better than Shawkey,
has been almost unbeatable from Bush, Houck or Brown. So if the
April to October, for out of twen- aeries goo, to seven games, Mc-
ty-two atarta he has loot but three Draw will have far better pitch-
games, and of the twenty-two has ing in at least three and possibly-
been bit hard in only two battlea. I four, and advantage not to be
This showing ia an amazing one (overlooked,
for a youngster who has been glv-1 Pitching and batting work in
opposite directions, being almost
directly dependent upon each oth
er. So it must be remembered
that McOraw’a better pitching
must face much stronger batting
nnd that Mack’a lighter pitching
twill face much lighter batting.
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8 In other words, McGraw’s pitch-
jing must be quite a bit beftcr to
offaet a heavier and more power-
■ful offense.
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Hun. Martin V. Calvin, writing
ip tile Savannah News recent!
Hiiid the following of poultry;
I quest ion whether one hundred
readers of this popular newspap
have anything approaching a fair
eoneeptiun of the value of the
poultry industry of the United
State, and of thia stale. Every
body has a general knowledge of
the faet that poultry abounds
to some extent throughout the
whole country, but the belief is
that the work is in the nature of
an aaidr—so comparatively insig
nificant that it cannot be regard
ed aa an industry of the union or
of the state
Poultry pnblieatiogs nnd poul
try exhibition, have created the
Impression that the work of poud-
try raising i, accomplished . by
professionals. That ia not the
purpose of those publications and
exhibitions not at all; their ob
ject is to direct attention to the
possibilities of the work.
It is, of course, conceded that
on every farm there are a few
chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese
and guineas. Thp belief is, that
in the aggregate they do no-
amount to much.
I remember that, a few year*
ago, I made inquiry of a man who
traveled a portion of South Caro
lina near the city of Augusta,
buying chickens to be sold in the
city. He had in hia wagon eighty
chick- ns- fryer*, broilers and
hens. He informed me that it had
takeu him two days, traveling
eighty miles a day and going
from farm to farm, to collect the
chickens. His purchases range-:
in number from three to twelve
birds. The territory he traveled
was comparative!*- thickly art-
tied.
Thia will give you an idea as to
the teeming scarcity of poultry on
the farms. This is the basis of
the general belief a, to the intig-
try products of the United States
are to he found on farms.
The poultry industry is, with
out exaggeration, at once a sur
prise and, in a large measure, the
hope of the country and the state.
Take the country at large and
consider the results developed in
1912:
The value of poultry and poul
try products, on farms that year,
in the United States amounted to
the princely sum of $570,000,000.
first. That amount equalled
three-fifths the value of the cot
ton crop proper.
Second. That amount exceed
ed the farm value of the wheat
crop by $14,720,000.
Third. That amount exceeded
the value of the oat-crop by $117,-
531,000.
Fourth. That amount was more
than ten times the value of the
wool crop.'
Fifth. That amount equalled
two thirds the Value of the hay-
crop.
Sixth. That amount exceeded
the value of the Irish potato crop
by $357,450,000,
Seventh. That amuunt exceed
ed the value of the sw-inc of the
entile country by $40,672,000.
Eighth. That amount exceed
ed in value all the mliles of the
country by $44,343,000.
Ninth. That amount equalled
quite seventy per centlff the v
ue of all the milk cows of the
country.
Tenth. That amount equalled
quite seventy-three per cent of
the fafm value of all the "other
cattle” of the country.
What a surprise to the average
reader! Poultry raising is cer
tainly entitled to oe proclaimed
to be “on infant industry.
Glance at poultry- and poultry
product, in Geirgia—1912
The value of these two items
amounted to $3,404,000!
First. That amount exceeded
in farm value the oat crop of the
state by $3,543,000.
Second. That amount exceeded
the value of the hay crop by $9,-
092.00.
Third. That amount exceeded
the value of the dairy products of
the state, excluding that used at
home, by $l,842,QQp.
Fourth. That amount equalled
quite seventy-five per cent of tin
able of all the inilk cows in the
state.
Fifth. That amount exceeded
in farm v'alne all the “other cat
tle" of the state by $1,127,000.
Sixth. That amount was more
than sixty per cent of the farm
value of all tile swine of the
state.
Incredible! 'Tea — seemingly
Your view point permits the
exclamation, but there are the
grad-grind facta. They suggest
that it will pay handsomely tq
give more and closer attention to
poultry raising and 'poultry pro
ducts than we have been bestow
ing on them.
Decatur, Ga., September 27,
1913.
DEAD BODY FISHED
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Washington. Get. 3.—Tragedy
stalked in the White House
grounds but night, and employes
today arc speculating whether
the body they fished from the ba
sin of one of tile fountains was
that of a suicide or an unfortu
nate drowned accidently under
cover of darkness.
William Strausa, of tl;c White
House force, discovered the
corpse, it was that of a great
horned owl, and its claws were
entangled in the water lillies that
fill the basin with a thick mat.
The marauder evidently had de
signs on a gold fish, when It sud
denly found itself a prisoner.
Mr . Strauss today set about
mounting his find, and will pre
sent it to tile Pr- si dent.
SCHOONER SUNK AFTER
COLLISION; CREW SAVED
Boston, Get. 3.—The stea
City of Atlanta Iihs arrived here
from Savannah bringing to port
the crew of the Boston schooner
Frank B. Witherbee, which Imd
capsized off Cape Hatteras Fri
day night after collision with the
steamer. ,
That there was no loss of life
wa* due largely to the bravery of
First Mste Lincoln C. Dalzell and
a boat’s crew of seven men from
the steamer who took off the
schooner’s men in a small boat in
a heavy sea. The Witherbee went
over within three minutes after
being struck. Most of her sail
ors were in their hunks at the
time and upon reaching the deck
several were washed overboard
afid were picked up by Dalzell.
Capt. Ellis of the Witherhee
places responsibility of the colli
sion on the steamer, claiming that
he had the right of way.
The steamer sustained a hole
three feet wide in her port bow.
The Witherbee, which was val
ued at $30,000, wns bound from
Boston for Wiggins, S. O.
AOED EATONTON LADY
IS OORED TO DEATH.
Give your little chicks Con-
key’s Starting Food the tint
few weeks and watch them grow
strong and free from disease. 10c,
!5e. ami 50e pkgs. Come in and
•• n< »e|| you all abort n. J. W
niticanee of poultry raising is an 4 18 5t wk>
Aatonton, On., Get. 3.—An un
usually sad accident resulting in
the death of Miss Sallie Arnold,
a highly esteemed lady, occurred
at the Arnold hoiqe, near Eaton-
ton. Saturday morning.
The family cow got out of the
lot early after breakfast and Miss
Arnold attempted .to drive her
back into the lot enclosure.
Finding her hard to handle she
called to some little negro boys
passing along the road and asked
them to help her. The cow seem
ed rather on a rampage and put
the negroes to flight over a near
by fence. She then attacked Mist
Arnold and gored her to death in
horrible manner before assist
ance arrived, although she had
never before been considered i
cow of vicious nature.
Miss Arnold’s brother, John W
Arnold, attempted to come to his
sister’s riscue, and he, too, was
attacked and narrowly escaped
death. The cow was immediately
shot twice, hut still lived on,
seemingly only badly wounded
and fcady to fight, until Satur
day afternoon, when a neighbor’s
Winchester was secured to put
out of existence.
Miss Arnold was a member of
one of Putuam’s oldest and best
known families, the daughter of a
Methodist preacher, who was a
pioneer of Methodism and a mem
ber of a prominent Georgia farai-
At the time of her death she
was seventy-six years of age. The
funeral aerviees and interment
took place at the family burial
ground Sunday aiorning. and
were attended by a large con
course of friends and relatives.
Washington. D. C., Oct. 8.—On
the ground that the bankruptcy
act, which has been in effect as a
United States statutetsince 1898,
is a travesty on justice, Repre
sentative Edwards yesterday in
troduced a bill to repeal the law
ami all its amendments. The bill
provides that no proceedings be
gun prior to the passage of the
act shall be affected by it.
In speaking of the matter Mr.
Kdevards said:
"The bankruptcy law has long
since served its purpose. Its orig-
1 purpose was to give honest
men who had been unfortunate
in their busimss affairs an op
portunity to take advantage of
the provisions of the act and to
wipe out their heavy indebtedness
so that they could start life over
again. Many of this class have
been benefited by this act and in
faet the country Ji«s been bene
fited for many good men have
been enabled to again get on
their feet and have since made
oil and have been of substan
tial worth ami benefit to human
society and to commerce.
"As 1 have said, the law has
served its purpose. Its good ef
fect 1ms ceased, in my opinion,
and in many cases it is being used
a* a tool with which honest debts,
are evaded; and on the other
hand in many cases it is being
used as a debt collecting machine
with which honest men are perse
cuted. -
In addition to this in some
cases unscrupulous lawyers - who
arc after the fees and the fees
■lone are using the bankruptcy
act as a ‘fee mill’ in which men
who own much property and owe
some indebtedness who would
finally be able to pay their in
debtedness and have something
left for themselves and those de
pendent upon them, are proceed
ed against, their credit is destroy
ed, and while they may not be
bankrupt, at the same time they
are rendered powerless and h .do-
leas through the filing of peti
tions that literally destroy them
commercial sense, with the
usual result that the party pro
ceeded against is adjudge! a
bankrupt. His property !s taken
from him. administered by- a tru^
tee. After the fees of the grip
ping attorney nre paid and after
the heavy court cosU have been
deducted: after the receivers and
trustees, special masters and oth
ers who get n finger in the pie are
settled with, there is nothing left
for the creditors and nothing left
for the bankrupt.”
GIRL’S CALF-DI8PLAYINO
SLIT SKIRT HOLDS UP
A 0. A O. PAST matt. TRAIN
Hinton, W. Va., Oct. 7—Emerg
ing from a mob qf Hinton’s citi
zens which had taken possession
of the Chesapeake and Ohio de
pot in their endeafol to sec the
latest dress ereation worn by Miss
Nannie Wheeler, Henry Kikens
said;
"Well, we’ve had slit skirts
worn here with bine, red and
green baekgrounda, but that’s
the first I’ve ever seen with a calf
exposure.”
Apparently obvious to the sen
sation she wns creating. Miss
Wheeler, on her way to the sta
tion, tripped gnvly along and at
eaeh itep the slit, which had
been placed in the back of her
skirt, would open. r«vealing Mix*
Wheeler's shapely silk stockinged ,
legs. Two policemen tried to dis- Mi'l
perse the crowd) but, seeing the I ' r
uselessntss of the effort, bo:h fell
in behind the young woman and
did a little “gazing” themselves.
At the depot so anxious was the
crowd to get a little closer yiew
that the train arriving here a few
minutea after nobh was held np
fifteen minutes by the throng
which covered the tracks. The
excitement ended when Miss
toss or Appatlts | Wheeler finally got on the train.
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