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Merkle’s Gameness Has Made
Him a Wonderful First Sacker
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Nl<\\ YORK Inly s A string*’
world. Indeed this little
splv ii' of ours, and stranger
still that portion of its Inhabitants
which ramps and raves six months
of the you over our national pas
time. Say one cold, cruel word
acoinst "Huh< Mar<|iiar<! t<> any
citizen of Manhattan or environs
and then get ready tor a punch in
the eye. Whisper a srandal against
the fair name of Fred .Merkle it you
are contemplating suicide. Yet a
brief spell bmk the enthusiasts who
now worship al tip shrine of this
grand pair were denying them with
oaths and i iiis<’“.
\Ve will deal Just now with Mer
kle's case. Hero 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 tnen
that ever broke into baseball. He
Is a man in every sotjse of the word.
His heart is as big as lint of an
ox. Cithern iso h>- wouldn't lie In
major league company today . How
many professional baseball play
ers. do you think, could have stood
the panning and the roasting and
the abuse heaped upon the head of
this young gentleman ttflet he fail
ed to touch secot d base In that
memoiable game of 19U8 I'll tell
you. Not one In ten. no, not one
in fifty
"You can not find many belter
first basemen today titan Merkle.
Why Simply because he realized
his mistake and deckled to live it
down by deeds of worth. He didn't
sulk. He didn't slouch. He held
a high head and kept a stiff tippet
lip. And instead of worrying over
that one mistake, as most fellows
would have done, lie profited by ills
experience and let it stand as a
warning Hi- game improved He
was a fat better first baseman in
1909 titan in Ilttlx; fat better still
in 191** This year he is among
the best m the game. I take my
hat oft to Merkle He's the ptop
ri Stuff He'll be. better still in
1913
Merkle » Corking Fielder.
Tom Lynch comes prettv near to
knowing what he's talking about
before lie ovet expresses himself.
I - very doubtful If there Is a fit st
baseman tn the game move \ piti
able than Fred Merkle There are
flashier player* Hall • 'base and
Jake ftaube’t possessing more
natural idvantagis in that they
throw left handed, appea* a bit
more gtareful. perhaps Yet it I*
doubtful if eitbet has anything op
the Giant as a fielder. Merkle is
not show y
But he is wonderfully sut* and a.-
expert in making pick ups of mean
bounders as even the great * Ims'
He covers as much’ground it- Hal.
is as skillful a ba-e runner and a
more rlangeious hitter. He is a
trifle less agile ami van not go so
high for strong arm pegs, nor >-
Im 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 'tin
ningly as either Chase or Dau
bert
No one versed in baseball win
deny that Merkle ranks among the
first three baseball's first base
guardians That is an honm in
deed for a youngster that the fans
were trying to hound back to the
brush four short summers ago. But
then II” Hus unfortunate, simply
the victim of circumstances. Hid
Mike Donlin, Arthur Devlin or the
great Matty been on first when VI
Htidwrll knocked out the clean
single that should have won th*
I’tile would naie been
d the ve’ -ian's oversight
The fact that it was a recruit .
tin- knockers a chance. Or If New
'York had won the play-off with
thefubs. as they should, Merkle’s
lot would not have been so hard in
1 9H9.
A- a matter of fact, both Mc-
Graw and Mathewson were so
imp’ll yes. oven more to blame,
than Merkle. He was a raw re
cruit, 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 Erod 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 wa= coaching
at first base and McGraw at third.
When Rridwell went to bat with
two out, Merkle on first and Me
t'ormick on third there was Identi
cally the same situation as the
one at Pitsburg ten days previous
ly w hen Johnny Evers and the Hubs
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.
f'hicago 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 tnlts 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 poachers -McGraw and
Mathewson—were caught napping
Just the same as was Merkle? It
is quite true that the Giants were
entitled t# the pennant save for a
little technicality. Yet technicali
ties have lost empires as well as
pennants and ball games
If you sent a letter or telegram to the
wrong address, you would hardly expect
an answer, would i ou" The same is true
when you select the wrong medium to
hue all your wants filled Try the right
way The Georgian Want Ad way
A thirst—
a fountain—and Hires
t There's one sure way to feel just as if you were tr
bw sitting in a draft from an iceberg. Here it is—try it y f/BJ
and see: Step into the nearest store where the fountain L
sizzles—and just say Hires. Needless to say rootbeer.
/I It’s so cooling. And besides, there’s a tonic value to I
/. 1 Hires that makes it far better for you than any other I
summer drink. Natural juices of flowers, roots and / Jra
CMk herbs, the sap of forest trees. All these give it that
/ tonic bracing property. But not a trace of drugs. f
/ J Hires only helps—never harms. Drink X
a &l ass and’see. y'l
5 C —sparkling, snappy—simply fine. \ I
. 1, inOr in bottles, carbonated. VA
TITI Yj TlTlxj XII Ti xJ T1
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. JULY 8, 1912.
Crackers Will Be Lucky if They Aren't Last by Saturday Night
PLAY 9 GAMES IN 6 DAYS WITH STRONG CLUBS
By Percy H. Whiting.
WELL, what shall we say
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
belter this week than it did last to
keep from It.
We have led up, by easy stages,
to rhe 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
jbj) this summer hasn't been mate
rially better.
"What's the matter with the
• Tackers?”
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 we don't, but that's
as close to an explanation as we
can get.
• • •
'"J'HE 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 with
bum clubs, they will lose all to
the good clubs.
Fortunately, however, this does
not necessarily follow. The Crack
ers are batting well. Os course,
whenever 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
$ MAYOR SAYS ARRESTI
i PLAYERS WHO “TALK I
X BACK” TO “HIS UMPS”±
+ —.— 4.
4- WALLA WALLA, WASH.. July 4.
4- 8. —Players who have anything to 4-
-I- say to the umpire and most of them 4-
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-
-1- era who feel like expressing them- 4-
4- selves emphatically to the dictator 4-
4- person face arrest for disorderly 4
4- conduct. 4
4- Just to see that this order to the 4
4- chief of police was carried out, May- 4
4- or Gillis attended the Pendleton- -£•
4- Walla Walla game. Policemen were 4-
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
44-4-m4-H-H-r4“H-H~H~H"i~H>4-v4-i«
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
• 'rackets is the fact that they can
4nake 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 hut 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.
Os course. In that first game Sat
urday the Bi'llkens were lucky. Or
the Crackers were unlucky. Figure
it either way you please. But this
bad luck is going too far.
• • •
jF tin umpires had wanted to earn
1 their salaries Saturday they
would have enforced the rule
against delaying the game. The
Blllikens were persistent and 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.
• • •
VITE have with us today the league
’ leaders —that tight little ball
club gathered together by Colonel
Carleton Molesworth.' We picked
them, at the first of the season, to
win thd pennant. We haven’t yet
seen any reason to change our de
cision.
The Barons lack a lot of being
the greatest ball club in the world,
but they are Useful. The team has
some clean-up barters, 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 one? this season, so' the.
chances for winning a lot of these
games ate 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.
arthurWapplehangs
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 three-fifths seconds from the
record held by Johnny Albright, of Den
ver. >
Fifteen minutes later be retained bis
Eastern championship title by defeat
ing Harry Thomas, of Philadelphia,
in the tive-mile match race in two
straight heats. His time in both heats
was 4:38 2-5.
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Atlanta, Ga.
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 humor.
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
« 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.
When 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 Ketchell 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
cine. It got to be that he was quite
a drawing card around the camps,
the attendance being visibly swelled
whenever it was known that big
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Charlie Miller was to appear.
In time Miller became a standby
with promoters of four-round bout?
in San Francisco, and he continued
to be the heavyweight comedian of
the Queensberry ring. He loved
the stress of fierce fighting, and he
has an utter disregard for punish
ment.
But he did not catch on to the
technique of things, somehow. lif
the ordinary leads and counters of
boxing he did not seem able to
obtain a grasp. As they used tn
say of Sharkey in his cub days, he
could not hit the postoffice unless
you let him swing at it.
Miller's most brilliant achieve
ment was the spoiling of Al Kauf
man's come-back dream. The two
heavies met at Dreahiland on the
evening of June 21, and Miller
gained the decision after four
rounds of furious work. Miller*
great bulk strength and assimi
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stead. By continued ■ rushing he
Kept Kaufman off balance, and did
not permit Billy Delaney's former
protege to set himself properly for
a right clip at.the chin.
Has Heap of Confidence.
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felt that he will never acquire an"
kind of ring polish, hut he ha?
gained confidence and has formu
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fling to the fellows who are sup
posed to know how.
Miller is elated with his success.
He is still modest, but he Is ambi
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with Luther McCarthy and Al Pal
zer, and it really seems as though
he is to be reckoned with.
His real name, by the way. i«
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prospect of his being christened
"Costermogger Joe” if he ever rise?
to the pugilistic heights.
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