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Merkle’s Gameness Has Made
i Him a Wonderful First Sacker
By W. J. Mcßeth.
NEW YORK. .July B.—A strange
world, indeed. this little,
spjiene of curs, and stranger
Will that portion of its inhabitants
which ramps and raves six months
of the year over our national pas
time Say one cold, cruel word
against •Rube” Marquard to any
citizen of Manhattan or environs
and then get ready for a punch in
the eye Whisper a scandal against
the fair name of Fred Marine If you
are contemplating suicide. Yet a
brief spell back the enthusiasts who
now worship at the shrine of this
grand pair were denying them with
oaths and curses.
We will deal Just now with Mor
kle’s case. Here Is a tribute paid
him recently by Tom Lynch, presi
dent of the National league.
"Merkle.” said Lynch, "I consid
er one of the most wonderful men
that ever broke into baseball. He
Is a man in every sense of the word
His heart is as big as that of an
ox Otherwise he wouldn't be in
major league company today How
many professional baseball play
ers, do you think, could have stood
the panning and the roasting and
th® abuse heaped upon the head of
thia young gentleman after he fail
ed to touch second base in that
memorable game of 1908? I'll tell
yeti Not one In ten. no. not one
tn fifty.
"You nan not find many better
first basemen today than Merkle.
Why? Simply because he realized
his mistake and decided tn live ft
4own by deeds of worth He didn’t
\an Ik He didn't slouch He held
a high head and kept a stiff upper
Up. And Instead of worrying over
that one mistake,, as most fellows
would hav* done, he profited bv his
experience end let ft stand as a
warning Hl* game Improved H*
was a far better first baseman In
1999 than in 1908. far better still
tn 1910 This year he is among
the beet In the game. 1 take my
hat off to Merkle Has the prop
ar stuff He’ll be better still In
1911.”
Merkle a Corking Fielder,
Tom Lynch comes prettv near tn
knowing what he's talking about
before he ever expresses himself.
It Is very doubtful If there is a first
baseman in the game more valu
able than Fred Merkle. There are
flashier players Hall Chase and
Jake Daubert. possessing more
natural advantages in that they
throw left-handed, appear a bit
more graceful, perhaps Yet ft is
doubtful if either has anything on
the Giant as a flelder Merkle is
not sliowy
But he is wonderfully sure and as
expert in making pick-ups of mean
bounders as even the great Chase
He covers as much ground as Hal.
is a® skillful a base runner and a
more dangerous hitter. He is a
trifle leas agile and can not go so
high for strong arm pegs, nor is
he so dexterous with the mitt hand
Yet Merkle Is the only right-hand
ed first baseman who can break up
a sacrifice hit play almost as cun-
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ningly as either Chase or Dau
bert.
No one versed In baseball will
deny that Merkle ranks among the
first three baseball's first base
guardians. That is an honor In
deed for a youngster that the fans
were trying to hound back to the
brush four short summers ago. But
then he was unfortunate; simply
the victim of circumstances. Had
Mike Donlin. Arthur Devlin or the
great Matty been on first when Al
Brldweil knocked out the clean
single that should have won the
game, little would have been
thought of the veteran's oversight.
The fact that It was a recruit gave
the knockers a chance. Or if New-
York had won the play-off with
the Cubs, as they shot,ld. Merkle's
lot would not have been so hard In
1909
A® a matter of fact, both Mc-
Graw and Mathewson were so
much—yes. even more -to blame
than Merkle He was a raw re
fruit, in the big show for the first
time. He had come up to one of
the craftiest managers and one of
the best teams in the profession
from the then obscure Southern
Michigan league Most of the sea
son he had spent on the bench,
studying Fred Tenny's style of play.
Took Tenny’s Place.
When Tenny’s underpinning went
to the had the "Kid" was called
upon. Now. when Merkle pulled
his oversight Matty was coaching
at first base and McGraw at third.
When Brldweil went to bat with
two out. Merkle on first and Mc-
Cormick on third there was identi
cally the same situation as the
one at Pitsburg ten days previous
ly when Johnny Evers and the Cubs
tried to win over the Pirates on
the same sort of technicality In
deed. if the subsequent play had
been rehearsed It could not have
been better played into Chicago's!
hand
Chicago lost its protest over
Pittsburg's victory because Hank
O'Day, who was umpire -In-chief
that day, had failed to note wheth
er or not the runner did touch sec
ond. Now, Chicago had certainly
tipped its mlts by the ruction it
raised over Pittsburg’s triumph.
What excuse, then, could New York
offer for not being on the alert
Is is not reasonable to suppose
that the coachers McGraw and
Mathewson—were caught napping
Just the same as was Merkle? It
is quite true that the Giants were
entitled to the pennant save for a
little technicality. Yet technicali
ties have lost empires as well as
pennants and ball games.
That was a painful afternoon for
McGraw. Mathewson the Giants
and in particular Fred Merkle. Yet
in the case of Merkle it perhaps
was one of those rare blessings it,
disguise. McGraw stuck by the boy
and gave bin, every encouragement.
And Merkle understood that his
chief was depending upon him to
make good in spite of the crowd
and wipe out the stigma of Giant
carelessness. That one fatal slip
up has been a beacon to Fred Mer
kle. It has fired his zeal whenever
it gave evidence of flagging So
far as he is concerned perhaps,
it was well that he did neglect to
touch second. The pennant of 190 S
is of little concern to the chan,
pions of 1912 And you may bet
that Merkle nor any of McGraw’s
disciples will repeat such'neglect,
in the world - series battles this
fall
BIG SHOOT ON TODAY.
BISLEY. ENGLAND. July 8. The an
nual meeting of the British National
Rifle association opened here today with
tin* weather The targets were set a 1
•JOO and t.Otto yard- the thief event of
the day was the Waldcgrave match.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, JULY 8. 1912.
Crackers Will Be Lucky if They Aren’t Last by Saturday Night
PIAV 9 GAMES IN 6 DAVS WITH STRONG CLUBS
By Perry H. Whiting.
I Y YELL, what shall we say
y/y/ about the Atlanta baseball
team now? It has cost as
much as the Panama canal; it has
taken as long in the building as
the pyramids. Yet it stands at
present next to last, and unless It
can perform miracles of valor, an
unheard of feat of arms, it will
drop to last place before the end of
the present week. We don't say,
mind you, that It. will get. last, be
fore Saturday’s sun sets -for there
Is no accounting for Nashville’s
ability to absorb punishment—but
we do allege that it will have to do
better this week than ft did last to
keep from it
We have led up, by easy stages,
to the crucial question, to wit:
"What's the matter with the Atlan
ta team, anyway?”
It's a question we don’t relish.
We spent all last season trying to
explain a tail-end team, and the
job this summer hasn’t been mate
rially better.
"What's the matter with the
Crackers?"
Plenty!
Chiefly, they can’t win games for
losing.
Why do they lose"
We don't know. The other team
always makes the most runs.
We have spent the last ten years
or thereabouts writing baseball in
the South, and ought to know some
thing about it if w e don’t, but that's
as close to an explanation as we
can get.
• • •
THE Crackers face a fearsome
week. They must play nine
games In six days with the Bir
mingham and New Orleans teams.
The natural supposition would be
that, as the Crackers lost most of
those they played last week wdth
bum clubs, they will lose al! to
. the good clubs.
Fortunately, however, this does
not necessarily follow The Crack
ers are batting well. Os course,
w henever one of their pitchers gets
going they hit a batting slump.
But in the main they are hitting
the ball. They made eighteen hits
in the first game Saturday—and
LAVENDER. GEORGIA
PRODUCT. PITCHING
SENSATIONAL BALL
The following is from The Chicago Ex
aminer of last Saturday:
"Gentlemen Jimmy Lavender, of the
Cubs, may toss his bonnet into the arena
in the presence of an, pitcher without
fear of having it booted around That
goes for mighty Reuben Marquard, the
•nineteen straight' hero of the Giants
National league enthusiasts have been
watching Marquard these many weeks.
Rube's work lias been marvelous Mar
velous is the word still he was lucky
to keep that straight siring of wins, for
he deserved to lose about four of them.
No knock on Rube. Just the truth
Now-, however, folks are keeping .one
eje on Mr John Lavender. of Mr
Chance's gaiaxx or stars, and the other on
Rube. There are two to watch instead of
one.
"Over on the west side, where tans for
some time have been envious of the south
side because it boasted some pitchers
they are tickled almost to death Laven
der is tlie favorite color. Take notice on
ladies' day next week
'Lavender got a late start as a sen
sation. but once started, goodness, hqw
that lan has pitched! He's a whale' and
a bear.' as the slangy fans say. all rolled
into one
"June 24 Lavender hit his stride. He
lost a 1 to 0 game that day to Fromme
of the Reds. Cincinnati counted in the
fifth inning Four days later a Friday,
he shut Pittsburg out here with one hit.
3to 0 The following Monday he blanked
them again in twelve Innings. 1-0. Yester
day he calcimined tlie Cards, 4 to 0. Some
pitching' He has won but five games out
of nine this season, hut he'll beat that
percentage to a certainty.
' If Lavender and his spitball whale the
Giants here next week we venture to pre
dict the west side bugs will be offering
bint their ho.tses and lots
'The Cub- it* great when they have a
pitcher and 1 .it emir; is a pitcher.
"That will be ail until he trims the
Giants."
Well, Now That We Know Each Other
I MAYOR SAYS ARREST?
iPLAYERS WHO “TALK?
jBACK" TO “HIS UMPS”?
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4- WALLA WALLA, WASH., July 4-
4* 8 Players who have anything to
4* say to the umpire- -and most of them
4- have—don't talk to his nibs in Wai- 4-
4* la Walla. Not any more Mayor 4‘
4- Gillis has put a stop to that. Play- 4-
4* ers who feel like expressing them- 4-
4- selves emphatically tq the dictator 4-
4- person face arrest for disorderly 4.
4" conduct 4.
4* -lust to see that this order to the 4-
4- chief of police was carried out, May- 4*
4* or Gillis attended the Pendleton- 4*
4- Walla Walla game Policemen were 4*
stationed close enough to overhear 4*
4* the diamond conversation. The 4*
4- players didn’t say anything—while 4-
4- the game was under way. 4*
4* 4-
-H-4-4»4-H~H®H-4-I"b4"bH’4®t--M®l-'H“k
still managed to lose it.
However, a team that is hitting
the ball is likely to win a game any
told time. So there is hope.
The marvelous thing about the
Crackers is the fact that they can
* make a million hits and never a
run. Saturday, in the first inning,
the Crackers made three hits and
got two bases on balls and scored
only one run In the third three
singles and an error netetd but one
run. In the fourth three hits in suc
cession resulted in no runs. In the
eighth two hits, with only one
down, resulted in nothing.
It was nobody’s fault in particu
lar. In the first Agler struck out
with the bases full. In the second
Callahan and Alperman fizzled with
a man on second. In the third
Donahue hit into a double play
with the bases full. In the fourth
Hemphill hit into a double play
with the bases full. In the eighth,
with two on and one down, Sitton
and Callahan failed to do anything.
And there you have it.
of course, In that first game Sat
urday the Billikens were lucky. Or
the Crackers were unlucky. Figure
It either way you please. But this
bad luck is going too far.
■ ■ •
IF the umpires had wanted to earn
* their salaries Saturday they
would have enforced the rule
ALL-AMERICAN QUARTER
TO COACH OHIO WESLEYAN
DELAW ARE. OHIO. July 8. - M B.
Banks, former Syracuse player, picked by
Walter Camp and others as all-American
quarterback in 1905, was offered the po
sition of coach at Ohio Wesleyan univer
sity. succeeding L. W. St. John, who goes
to Ohio State Banks, who Is 28 years old
and married, lias be err head coach at
Central university. Lexington. Ky . the
past three years
He has played football, basket ball and
baseball, and In addition taken part in
track work. Although he has accepted a
contract for another year at Central uni
versity. Banks is expected to come here,
and be visited the town last week seek
ing the position.
BILL CLYMER HAS SOME
RECORD FOR PENNANTS
Bill Clymer has outdone Bill Smith’s
pennant record He won six rags in
eleven years Here is his record:
1900. Wilkesbarre (Atlantic league!,
first; 1902. Louisville (A. A.l, second,
pennant lost last day; 1903. Ltuisville (A
\l. second: 1904, Columbus (A A.I. sec
ond, 1905. Columbus (A. A.), first; 1906.
Columbus lA. A.I. first; 1907. Columbus
(A. A.l. first; 1908. Columbus (A. A.l.
third: 1909. Columbus (A. A.), resigned in
mill-season; 1.910, Wilkesbarre iN. Y.
State league!, first. 1911, Wilkesbarre
(N. Y. State league!, first.
PITCHER FALLS OUT OF WINDOW.
BURLINGTON. IOWA. July 8. Pitch
er Ed Hawk, of the Burlington (Central
Association! team, for whom the Detroit
American league team is said to have
offered $3,000, was fatally injured by ac
cidentally falling from a third story win
dow of his hotel, while attempting to
adjust a w indow shade
If you sent a letter or telegram to the
wrong address, you would hardly expect
an answer. woukLvou? The same is trut
when you select the wrong medium to
hrve all your wants filled Try the right
way—The Georgian Want Ad way.
against delaying the game. The
Billikens were persistent anft dis
gusting offenders. In the second
game they just kicked away, the
time, throwing the ball around the
lot and wasting time in other ways.
This stuff hurts baseball. The
league president ought to do some
thing to speed up the games.
« a •
TATE have/with us today the league
leaders—that tight little ball
club gathered together by Colonel
Carleton Mplesworth. We picked
them, at the first of the season, to
win the pennant. We haven't yet
seen any reason to change our de
cision.
The Barons lack a lot of being
the greatest bail club in the world.
* but they are useful. The team has
some clean-up batters, some fair
fielders and a lot of spirit. It is
winning chiefly with that spirit.
The men have gotten together and
are playing ball to win.
The Barons are due for four
games in three days. They play a
double-header Tuesday. The Crack
ers have managed to defeat the
Barons once this season, so the
chances for winning a lot of these
games are none too good.
When the Barons depart the Pel
icans arrive. They play double
headers Thurday and Friday and a
single on Saturday. The locals
have won one game this season
from the Pelicans, so the outlook
for a clean-up the latter part of the
week is none too blooming bright.
Yea. verily, if the Crackers are to
be better than last on Saturday
night they will have to go some.
ARTHUR CHAPPLE HANGS
UP NEW MOTORCYCLE MARK
NEW YORK. July B.—Arthur Chap
pe. on a trial against time, traveled
three miles in 2:03 4-5 minutes on a
motorcycle at Brighton Beach, clipping
one and seconds from the
record held by Johnny Albright, of Den
ver.
Fifteen minutes later he retained ifls
Eastern championship title by defeat
ing Harry Thomas, of Philadelphia,
in the five-mile match race in two
straight heats. His time in both heats
was 4:38 2-5,
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Charlie Miller, the Latest Hope,
Has Swell Wallop and Is Game
By W. W. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO, July B.
There have been white hopes
and white hopes, but assur
edly no possible restorer of pu
gilistic prestige to the Caucasian
race ever developed under circum
stances similar to those which
marked the coming out of big
Charlie Miller, of San Francisco.
Miller is a Herculean Roumanian
with literally no sense of It % >r.
With him every incident of the
day’s existence is. as serious as a
smash on the jaw. Once, - out at
Colma training camp, they fixed up
an electric chair with a push but
ton attachment for him, and it was
a long time before they could ex
plain the Joke to him. He thought
the conversion of the chair into
a galvanic battery was due to some
vagary of the climate or that may
be it was something he ate that af
fected his muscles.
M hen Miller first became enam
ored of prize ring pastimes he was
employed as a motorman on the
street, cars. He used to present
himself at the training quarters of
any prominent pugilist who hap
pened to be undergoing prepara
tion for a match and volunteer as
sparring partner.
He asked no mercy, and for that
matter the harder they slugged him
the. better he liked it. Once Stan
ley Ketchel! picked the largest pair
of gloves he could find and flogged
at Miller without stint. The mo
torman was knocked out that aft
ernoon. but the next day he was on
hand again ready to take his medi
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a drawing card around the camps,
the attendance being visibly swelled
whenever it was known that big
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you let him swing at it.
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He is still modest, but he is ambi
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with Luther McCarthy and Al Bal
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he is to be reckoned with.
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