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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1911.
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HOW MERKLE SAVED THE GIANTS IN THE FIRST GAME
WORLD'S SERIES WILL SOON BE ENDED
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
II
PLAY BALL
ON TUESDAY
Yes, Really, There’ll Actually
Be a World’s Championship
Series Game.
WEATHER IS CLEAR,
GROUNDS ARE DRY
WHEN SNODGRASS INJURED BAKER
Suota «ivxxajarEiOMju, txyn Vmam
Merkle li hero shown meking the remerkeble ploy on Colline in the fifth inning of the world'e eeriee opener,
which throttled the Athletiee' rally and eaved New York from certain defeat. With third and eecond bases occu
pied, Collins drova a slow bounder Over Mathaweon. Merkle dashed in behind Chriety, and when he obeerved thet
the fleet Colline would beat Matty to ths bag, he sprinted over and tagged the man for the third out, an infinittai-
mal part of a eecond before Colline slid into the bees. Colline ie No, 1, Merkle No. 2 and Mathewson No. 3.
JACKETS WORKING FOR ALABAMA
The Heisman players expect a lot of trouble Saturday, and with weather conditions favor
able to hard work, have buckled down and begun to do real business—At that the scrubs played
all around them in Monday’s desperate scrimmage.
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Monday waa n busy day for the Yel
low Jackets, both big and little. Scrim
mage of the hardest kind waa held and
the scrubs played the varsity the beat
game of tho season, scoring one touch-
.loan against them and allowing the big
team to cross the goal only once.
The follows realise that In Alabama
• bey have no easy opponent and hence
they are grasping time by the forelock
ami getting in the best possible trim.
There were few Injuries aa a result bt
the game last Buturday and the m/sn
seem to have stood it pretty well.
tioree Is somewhat “stove up,” but will
ho back by Tuewlay.
Loeb is still suffering with “cholly
ho*s“ and Hutton 1* playing center In his
absence.
Thomaeaon still has a game leg and
was not able to do much in the scrim
mage line Monday.
Captain Patterson's ankle- waa turned
Saturday and It will need a few days
rest, but aa usual he waa on the field
Monday doing what work he could.
Fielder, a man recently put on the
squad, has recovered from hla “cholly
boss” and Is showing up well against
the scrubs. He la light, but Is fast and
a safe tackier. Moat likely he will be
used Haturday.
That game with Alabama will certainly
be a good one, and not until then can a
real line of dope be gathered on Tech’*
prospects for the November contests.
Howard was easy and Tanneaaee was
really a cinch. Mercer did a tittle better,
but not noticeably.
The weather on Saturday will no doubt
be cold and better suited to football than
any this season. Alabama apparently has
the real article and there Is no reason
why a high class of ball should not be
pulled off Saturday.
Georgia beat Alabama by the small
score of 12 to 0 and then beat Sewaneei
IS to S. Alabama Is. thus by dope, on aj
par with Bowanee. barring Glllem's kick-,
(ng. Tech haa not defeated Bewanee In
the last few years, so Alabama has the
shade on the home team.
However, spirit Is increasing, more |
scrubs are coming out and everything Ini
the way of proepects la Juat about mid
dling. ,
A. A. CS RUN AROUND TOWN
WILL BE EXCITING EVENT
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ALABAMA IS !|
APPREHENSIVE j j
After Many Delays. Because
of Rain and Wet Grounds
Game Will Be Played.
Philadelphia, Oct. 24.—The fourth
(tame of the world’s series was declared !
officially "on" today after the staff of I
four umpires Journeyed to Shlbe park
and found the grounds In good playing j
condition. Umpire Brennan hurried to
a long distance telephone and sent the
glad tidings to the members of the na
tlonal commission In their hotel In New
York and the august body that controls
the playing of the games started for
the scene of the fray.
There waa an almost perfect setting
for the fourth and what was expected
to be the pivotal battle In the world's
hatnplnnshlp series when the sun sl\ot
Is first beams across 8hlbe park to.
day.
Following live consecutive postpone
ments of the fourth game of the big
clash between the New York Giants
and the Philadelphia Athletics because
of vain and wet grounds, the day broke
crisp and clear, and the field where
the contest was staged to go on et J
o'clock was rapidly whipped Into nor
mal condition by a stiff breeae end tor 11 -
llant sunshine.' The weather was chilly
—a little too chilly, some of the fane
thought—but the great end convincing
point waa that the sun had returned
from Its long vacation.
Following the regular Inspection of
the grounds' by Umpires Klein and
Brennan and thalr reports to the na-
tlonal commission, no doubt was ex*
pressed but that tba game would be
played as scheduled. Aeelatante of
Groundkeeper Schroeder. who had been
working all day yeeterday, returned
their labore at dawn.
This la the Big 8howdown.
Owing to the change In conditions
which the long delay has brought
about, all hands were ready to admit
that the struggle this afternoon wae
vital for both teams and the rival man
agers, realising this. Injected all the
Hinge/, possible Into the players. Altho
The first Injury in the world’e series. 8nodgratt ie pictured eteating third base in tha sixth inning of tha
opantr at New York. Bakor fumbled a good throw from Thomas end waa a plkad in tha arm in tha collieeion.
neither MeGraw. of the OManls, nor
Mack, of the Athletics, would reveal
the pitching choices, for the fourth
game early In the day, It was evident
from the workouts that the former had
! of success carefully between Bender
AS TO THE HITTING OF F. BAKER |
Some dope by a man who knows on the swatting peculiarities of the chap whose hitting is !
much in the public prints these days—Also something of the minute personal peculiarities and !
habits of the other Athletic performers. i
By LOU CLINE.
Much has and will be written about
the great Hugger, John Franklin Ba
ker, and the kind of balls he hits, and
also the kind he does not hit. With
Baker, or "Bake” as his teammates
know him, .as it la with the past king
of all sluggers—Lajole, of Cleveland—
nalther of the men has a weakness.
They can hit any kind of a ball that la
pitched to them. At times, as Baker
aaya himself, he haa an off day. and he
couldn't hit a cheese. The next day he
can go out there, and almost with hie
eyes closed, lambaat a bui—sliot for ex
tra bases, no matter who happens to
be pitching. His record of fifteen home
runs thle season speaks for Itself.
Baker always waits for a ball to Ida
especial liking. In this he la unlike
the great Lajole, who will somettmea
take a step toward the pill and meat It
before It breaks. Baker uaea a bat that
Is slightly heavier than moat players
use. even heavier than the majority of
sluggers, not because he thinks the ball
will travel farther when hit than If he
ueed a lighter maul, but because a
heavy bat Juat balances his arm and
shoulder muscles. He doesn't grip tha
bat up short, but his fingers are out
full to the end of the willow. And when
he swings, every ounce of muscle In his
whole body from hla ankles to his neck
goes Into that swing. At a result, some
times' when he misses the ball he Is
thrown clear from his balance with that
twitting swoop at the ball.
Baker takes advantage of anything
that gives him the free use of every
muscle and tendon and as an example
he doeen't wear long-sleeved all
even In rol<L weather, but a al<
cropped off short at the elbow.
The ball player-writers are all tell
ing how Baker hits and the kind of a
ball he will and will not hit, and how
to outgueea him, and Iota of superheat
cd sir on his weaknesses; but as i
matter of fact It la Impossible to out.
gueaa him. He hasn't any perceptible
weakness. If he has an off day any
body can fan him out. Many pltohera
think, when they have struck him out,
that they have outwitted him. It usu
ally happens, tho, that It wouldn't have
made any difference If they had thrown
him a straight ball with nothing on It
It's Just a question of whether or not
Baker la hitting. If he Is—look out!
Many writers of dope have claimed
that Baker plays a base runner badly,
but they do not explain the way he
really does play. In Justlca to him. It
Is fair to say that he Is not clumsy. Hs
has a habit of putting the ball on the
runner with both hands, and as a result
he has to stoop to play his man and put
him out. Therefore, he Is not In a po
sition, after making-the out, to raise up
out of the way of the runner's eplkes.
Thle, however, only happeni when he
haa the runner cinched. If H'e a does
play and Baker hasn’t time to wait for
the oncoming player, he ran make ns
clean a putout as Arthur Devlin or
Jimmy Collins used to do.
Aeullarities of Players.
Eddie Colline Ie continually picking
up email pebbles und pieces of dirt
from the second base station and cast
ing them to one side.
Harry Davis la chain lightning <vh-n
swinging that bat of his from his shoul
der down to meet the ball. He takes
a chop et It and when he hits It, It
usually goes into the air for an extra
base hit.
Ira Thomaa trlaa to get the batter's
goat with a silly grin as he squats be
hind tha plate.
Dan Murphy ties hla shoestring. o»
rather thinks he needs to tie It, some*
thing like twenty times In a game.
Rube Oldrlng tings snatches of songs
to himself not only while at bat, but
when In the field.
laughable Imitation of Hughey Jen
nings' grass clawing stunt ever seen.
“Cy” Morgan is the original funny
man of the Athletics. In winter l y
la a minstrel man. and this winter ho
and Bender and Coombe are to travel
the vaudeville route with a baseball
sketch.
Jack Barry la the quietest man (out
side of John Titus of the Phillies) play
ing the game.
Brlacoe Lord la the original Bllllken.
Btis runs like a hippopotamus when
loping, but when he Is In action be
scoots like a deer.
Emory Season Is
Off to Good Start
So change In the
line-ups for the
om pitchers, wus
men were In fine
A lot of limber young men are be
ginning to breexe over the country
loads leading out of Atlanta every day
or two now, clad In abbreviated cos
tumes and wearing a determined look.
If you ace 'em don’t Jump at any
hasty-l onclualons and ring up the asy.
lum. They haven't escaped. They are
Just men who are preparing for the
Atlanta Athletic club'a Run ArounJ
“own, which Is scheduled for Thanks,
giving day.
The course of this run, which will he
a near cross-country, has been decided
" n - The eonteatants will start from
the club house on Aubum-ave., travel
east to Piedmont-ave.. north to Ponce
DeLeon-ave.. r west to Peachtree-st.,
south to Auburn-ave.. and then east oil
Auburn to the club house.
This run will not have any of the
water Jumps, fences or any of the en
livening Incidents of the average crosr-
country, but doubtleaa the runners will
have their young hands full In making
the distance and dodging street car*,
automobiles and spectators. An A. A.
U. sanction haa been secured for the
rare and the event will be open to all
amateurs. All that will be neceesary
wlll be to secure an A. A. U. registra
tion. which costa but 25 cents. Any
who wish to enter are asked to see Joe
Police Are All Ready.
There was little early betting. In
University, Ala- Oct, 24.—Will the | w hat waa done, the Athletics ruled fa-
L’nlvcralty of Alabama beat Georgia i vorltea on the outcome of the aerlee.
Tech? | sure of a game at last, the fans
Coach Graves saw Saturday's game, | again lined up early at Shlbe park to
when Tech beat Mercer, and Ie frank' snap up whatever bleacher teats could
In saying that he has a wholeaome re-!be had.
'' What tha Managari 8ay,
»p«ct for the Crackers.
Tho Crlmaon and White men will not
ba In the beet nf condition when they
alight In Atlanta'Frlday afternoon. The
game Saturday was one of the hardest
they have participated In this year and
as a consequence they are In a bat
tered and bruised condition.
While It is true that Graves' men
who with to enter are asked to see Joe glowed up as well against the Unlver-
W. Bean, physical director of the club, g n y of Georgia aa did Btwanee. still the
who haa the event In charge. Alabamans were practically on their
AH! AT LAST!!
Coat Sweater Time!
Now is the time to buy you a Sweater.
A good one, too.
We have them in all sizes, weights, colors
and prices.
Boys’ Coat Sweaters $1.50
Men’s Coat Sweaters $3.50 and up
Men’s and Boys’ Jerseys — $1.50 and up
Call and let’s show you.
KING HOW.CO.
53 Peachtree Street
v r .. Laying a Superstition.
v[? Norman E. .Mack's Monthly.
* n ntiBta are not the only ones who
•"“ralmJJn '* y ,he * ho,t “ * n lnclcnt
hill I licks,, an unlettered but garrulous
• ... ,r, ty un aii subjects, was discussing
s ■2 cronies In the poatofflce or
, rth Missouri town the best time to
{!*** Ipnatoes.' One old fellow' maintained
'"*>d Friday la tba right time.
I tell you, boys," aald BUI posi
tively. “there ain't nothing In this Good
Friday superstition. I uaed to think /
couldn't raise potatoes unless I planted
them on Good Friday. But t can remem
ber one year Good Friday came on Sun
day, so I had to plant the next day; and
I raised as line potatoes aa you ever saw."
Alabamans were practically on their
own grounds and had 200 students to
keep their spirits up. A reverse con
dition will prevail Saturday when Ala
bama meets Tech.
As yet Alabama haa been unable to
bring forth a man who can punt. The
Alabama team hat, however, been
claseed at the scrappleet team In the
South this year and will give Tech a
good fight even If It does lose. Ala
bama expects to hold Hefsman'a beat to
a light acore, or else to win.
Jarvis Takes Men
To Memphis to Box
__ J. Jarvis, premlar pugilistic pro
moter. has gathered unto himself a sta
ble of boxers, Including two auch nota
bles as Willie Knoi gemoffskl (alias
I Mike Saul), and Jack Abies, of Chatta
nooga. and haa hied hi n on hla way to
Memphis, via Naahvi .e, to get some
engagements In the Bluff City.
Abies la a clever young boxer and
has met defeat but once. Saul has
had hla bumm at times but haa draws
with Jimmy Dasher and Joe Howard to
hl» credit, not to mention decisions
over Kid Burns and Jack Thomson, and
a knockout over Eddie Kelley. ,
J. DILLON MAKE8 GOOD.
Philadelphia, Oct, 24.—Success has
crowned the first appearance of Jack
Dillon, of Indianapolis. In the ring here.
Dillon gave Barney Williams, a local
favorite, one of the worst drubbings of
hla career last night Id their six-round
clash at tho American Athletic club.
Barney's face today waa puffed up Ilk*
a mushroom, but Dillon showed not a
A bartender aaya a strong breath uau
ally Indicates a weak character.—Chicago manager of the
News. ———
CALLAHAN GETS JOB.
James J. Callahan haa been named
Chicago American
1 Hi
baseball team to succeed Hugh Dully.
•'The boys are In good shape and
ready to face the Giants.” aald Man
ager Mack this morning. "The weather
Is a trifle chilly for tha fans, but not
too chilly for the game we are going to
put up."
Manager .MeGraw said; "The Ath
letics have not won this series yet by a
long shot.' We confidently expect O
come out of this game with an even
break behind us."
Altho a big contingent of fans was
expected from New York, the advance
guard waa considerably smaller than on
the occasion of the lost game played
here.
The big stadium at Shlbe pa
again gaily decorated, the rain having
spoiled the trimmings which were hung
ten days ago.
THE NEW "COUNTRY LIFE. 1
Western subjects figure prominently
In the November I Issue of Country
Life In America, the leading artlele be
ing a vivid account of life In the Irri
gated sections of the West, entitled
"Country Life In the Reclaimed Des
ert." It Is by Arthur W. Page, man
aging editor of World's Work, who has
been over the ground and made a care
ful personal Investigation of the whole
Western situation. Other Illustrated
articles are:
The Whistling Swan of Currituck
Sound." by A. Radclyffe Dugmore: "A
Mexican House ami Oarden In Cali
fornia." by Elva Elliott Sayford: "Th«
Feathered Carpenter of the November
Woods," by John Burroughs: "Cutting
Loose From the City—XII.” by Georg"
Porter: 'The Cabin and the House,” by
Charles Stuart Moody, M. D.; "Ths
White-Marked Tussock Moth,” by Sara
Savage Muller; “A New Farm House
of the Old-time Type." by Sherwln
Hawley; "A House Designed to Be At
tractive on All Sides,” by Jonathan A.
Rawson, Jr.
SEVENTH EDITION OF
BASKET BALL GUIDE OUT
Nothing has been left undone to
make the seventh annual edition of the
official collegiate basket ball guide, ed
ited by Harry A. Fisher, graduate man
ager of athletics of Columbia univer
sity. the most Interesting book on
basket ball ever published. The most
capable and efficient authorities of the
sport have reviewed the game In every
section of the country. All-collegiate
teams have also been selected. The
number of records and team photo
graphs have greatly increased at well
at other data Interesting to both the
lover and student of the game.
Emory College, Oxford, Os., Oct. 24.—
The seniors and Juniors played s 0-to-0
name here Monday ae an openor of the
1111 football season. Ths other game of
the day between the freshmen and the
sophomores, 1 waa won by tha freshlas, 5
to 0.
The game between the upper classmen
waa a listless affair axcapt occasionally
when Camp. Keeva or Towson would pull
off a sensational play. Tha only redeem
ing feature or the senior game warf tha
punting of Holland.
The eecond game, between the under
claeamen, wae a battle royal. For three
quartan they held each other 0 to 0. and
It waa only In the laat few minutes of
the last quarter that Starr managed to
score for the freshmen.
The freshmen team eras outweighed by
their opponents 16 pounds to tha man.
huh i 't itt• mi were mo wsi ui um ircamra,
am 1 by thalr spectacular playing made li
possible for thorn to win. The aoph team
depended chiefly on Hnxon, Poster, Balk
and I’earre to advance the ball, and they
played a strong game for their team.
The line-ups of the teama follow:
‘ First Qama.
Position. Junlora.
..left end.. Fe
.left tackle Qullllan
..left guard Mathew*
,y|or.. .. .. ..canter ..Bowie*
Jlaon ..right guard Muae
Johnson, V. M. . .right tackle. .Richardson
Tow eon right end Culver
Rockwell (c).. ..quarter Pearce
Jone#.., right half Laaseter
Pennington left half Stanford
Reeve fullback Camp (c)
Second Game.
Freshmen. Position. Sophomores.
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Well, well. The Qlidden tour went on Tuesday mornirut
without us. The principal reason was. no doubt, that we.
wpren’t there to ffo with it. The tour was entirely willing,
but—ah, well, Atlanta is an awfully good town, and there's
lots of work to be done here.
Senlon
Holland.
Pittman.
Clarke..
Taylor..
Lester..
Brown..
Baas
. ..left end..
..left tackle..
..left guard..
. ..center.. .
.right guard .
.Belk
. Monroe
.. Pavla
Nelson..
Piston
Denton ,. T
Bfckley right end Pearce
McCord quarterback Qullllan
Rtarr right*half ..Poster
Towson left half Crowder
Porter (c) fullback Saxon <c)
The officials of both games were:
Referee, Stipe; umpire, Lester; field
judge. LaPrade; head llnseman. Panning;
Every white man who be
lieves in true democracy
should be at Judge Russell’s
rally Wednesday night at 8
o’clock and hear his plat
form discussed by some of
Atlanta’s leading citizens.
Jackson’s court room, 349
Edgewood-ave.
A Cate of Short Measure.
PYom The St. Louis Globe*Democrat.
Simeon Ford, New York’s hotel man
humorist, said at a recent dinner:
"Theee attack* on New York’s dishon
esty and extortion usually come from
pikers. The latest attack comes from Pe-
leg Pease, of Croyden Four Corners, up
In New Hampshire. Pe (eg aald the
other day at the general store:
*• ‘Yea, I bin to New York, and It's a
fine town, but crooked.’
” ‘llow c
* •• ’Wan,’
a 2-rent panel - —
on the train ride home 1 counted ’em.
They wux marked 1,000. but, by crinus.
they wus fourteen short, by actual
count.* ”
After taking part in one Gildden, a man begins to under
stand why the good old tour iR so often on the verge of ex
tinction. The trouble is that a man who goes oil one seldom
goes back on another. This .year it took three efforts and two
postponements to get up a successful ovent. And it never
would have been a go if Southerners had not taken hold of it
and entered their cars.
If the tour were to be run over the same route again in
1912, we should be curious to see how many of those who
took part this year would get in the game. Not many, no
doubt.
One thing about Gliddening—if you don’t stand in with
the powers, don’t go. The favorpd few on this tour, who got
nice hotel accommodations and first choice of everything,
fared very well. The rest of ’em didn’t.
With Atlanta gradually relapsing from its Glidden fever,
we ean begin to get back to a consideration of such subjects ae
hasebnll and football.
We have been more amused than worried over the world'e
championship baseball situation.
Haven’t you always noticed that when any big event hap
pens in New York the town becomes a little more hys
terical and over-wrought than when it happens anywhere else.
That’s a town of superlatives. Nothing ever happens there
that’s normal. Consequently there have been yells and whoops
from the metropolis—the ticket scalping has been the worst in
the world, the crowds the largest on the globe, the playing the
most desperate in history, the weather the most abominable
bn record—everything the greatest, the smallest, the best, the
worst, or something superlative. That’s New York.
It is unfortunate that all the unpleasant things have hap
pened in connection with the series. It is unfortunate also that
all world’s series can’t be conducted by the American league
folks. They know how to do things. Let the National league
people get their hand in the pie and yells follow.
This is a great srason for ex-sporting editors to go into
politics. Here in Atlanta a former sport writer put something
across. And now in Memphis T. G. Scarbrough, for years
sporting editor of The Commercial-Appeal, is running for city
tax assessor. He has our best wishes. As between polities
and sport writing, we can’t see much choice, but if he wants
to be tax assessor we hope that he is elected. As long as he
stuek to the sport game he was easily the best informed sport
ing writer in the South.
ROCHESTER TEAM WILL
TRAIN AT ANNISTON
Anniston, Ala., Oe». 24.—The Roches
ter club ot the Eastern league, pen
nant winnara for the past three years,
will again train at Anniston next
spring, according to a letter Just re
ceived from Manager John Ganzet by
C. H. Mitchell, preal •lent of the local
club of the Southeastern league and
manager of the Alabama hotel.
Tom Fisher will probably again man
age Anniston in 1912.