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Turtles Finish Today, Vols Come on Thursday
Big Noise, Hov/ever, Will Be Lookout Series
By Perf\\ TL Whiting.
X t tI'JLI. inyhov there ■ one Ing
YA/ series left to look forward
to -:n«t < • i.iitanoogra-At-
lr:.t games which begin next Mon
dar and which r,.art the conclu
sion of the -> 1 in t. At' mtn soil
Bvervthing Is leading up io that
tilt now. PII Smith feels In duty
bound to v. .. t'.. .t series if he can
Manager A i< rman ind his plat
ers will put .1 majority of victori' .<
ovi rif It es within their power
v< idi , ti, will be «om<‘ play
ing And don’t you doubt It.
then 'll tie ~ie < i.v.d out 10 w>d
conr Sll I k Want t for
the lust mill !'. 15 at least
as th» lead' . of a busiih- , '.n>.
The final cinsh "• Ith Memphis
takes p ■ todai, n lo.tb < - .ear:
being .. .1. The fits' ganp r
get under va\ a' 2 t'.'i o’clock \nd
If today'} game- sta ,c up with the
other con.« sts of tbi series they
will b' • .<
Thursday n- N.ushville team
opens her.' fol ' tlirei -day series.
That shouldn't be such a bad af
fair lithe'-.
The Crackers are surely playing
improved ba -Ince they have been
back. i hi re has been a vast dis
play of pepper, compared with pn
vlous efforts, and all the m< n are
working with a will.
»««
z-~ rVE much '‘f the credit for the
('ra> i'er»-' sprightly work tn Joe
Agler. This lad is a natural gin
gey jar He Is full of gab and
jokes, and be keeps things noisy,
even when there Is every excuse
tor gloom
Liaerwise be !« a r. al fielder. Tea
terday lie mode a run Into right
field, slipped in between Wolfe and
Graham, who threatened to mess
things up. readied up over his head
and grabbed a ball that was going
Here's How Crackers
Are Hitting the Ball
Right Up to Date
These average-: Include yeserday'g
daughter:
Player— g. ab. r. h. p. c.
Price, p. . . . 1 2 a 1 50(f
Harbison, a* 72 253 29 71 .291
Bailey, If . . .128 439 SI 123 '.’3o
Alpcrman, 2b .123 4C" 81 129 2.9
Callahan cf S'. 322 31 St .261 j
Agler, Ib. . 82 208 84 54 .260
Graham, c .61 190 is 47 247
McElveen. 3b. . 181 471 52 113 '..' is
Becker, p. . . 15 .15 2 7200
Reynolds, c . 23 72 12 14 194
Wolfe, utility. . 17 46 5 S 174
Brady, p. . .. 22 69 2 11 .159
Sitton, p . . . 28 64 11 10 156
Johnson, p. ... 8 is 0 1 O.’.K
Waldorf, p. . 10 25 0 1 .040
1 1
The Big Race
Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on
how the "Big Five" batters of the
American league are hitting:
PLAYER— —— A B H Aver.
COBB -173 194 .410
SPEAKER 491 195 .397
JACK SC N 475 175 .368
COLLINS . 44-4 148 .333
LAJOIE 4. HI .325
Cobb and Collins were the only mem
bers of trie Bty Five" who pia,ed yes
terday. Cobb lost a point By securing I
onely two hits in six t mes at bat. Col- I
tins gained a notch by slamming out
one hit in tv o attempts
THURSDAY
ATLANTA vs. MEMPHIS
Ponce DeLeon Park >
Game ca'led 3.30.
the same direction he was. which
is the hardest known catch In base
ball
• • •
I N the presehi <• of 527 souls and
several newspaper men— by ail
odds the smalh st crowd of lite sea
son in Atlanta the .’.leinphis team
imk partial revenge ye-letday for
the Labor day drubbing by defeat
ing the Ctackers 8 to 6.
Hut al that they had to work for
it.
The game started out like a Tur
t 1 triumph. Vedder Sitton, who
e-sayed to pitch for Atlanta and
v ho is usually the Crackers’ most
dependable man didn’t have a
tiling but a profuse perspiration,
and 'he visitors batted around, and
one over, in the opening inning.
This netted them five runs.
Lyman Johnson, late of Hopkins
ville, was sent to the rescue and
hurled manfully The Hoptown re
cruit was found for three runs, but
considering subsequent events It
Isn’t at all certain that he would
not Irave won his game If he had
gone to work In the first inning
instead of the second For tn the
fourth ajid the eighth innings the
< packers took some awful punches
ut the celebrated agriculturist,
Rube Kissinger, and piled up four
runs.
In the last of the ninth the
Crackers did their extra best to
score some runs, and managed to
fill the bases, \gler. the first man
up, was safe n hen Bales let a
grounder get away from him. Bailey
singled and Agler went to third.
Bailey stole second. Then Harbi
son, a justly famous pinch hitter,
fanned, and Graham, generally a
useful swatter, hit a drooping liner
to Absteln. This brought AleFll
veen up and, recalling "Humpty's”
husky hitting of the previous day,
Kissinger prudently passed him.
NEWS FROM RINGSIDEI
o— - - - ( (
No more boxing bouts will be staged
In Birmingham, according to advtc< h from
that ci’s Dick Gilbert, of Denver. and
Bob Brown, a Pittsburg pug. were
•scheduled to fight ten rounds In the .Ma
baniH city I/abor dav, but the bout was
declared off when the sheriff interfered
I’ht action of the sheriff was brought
about by a committee from the Pastors’
union calling on him and asking that lie
not allow the tight to be staged.
* • ♦
Je« Mandot's win over Joe Rivers was
a great surprise Very little betting was
lone >n the tight, as no Mandot money
S ' I i w • ver. there Is one
who Ih a little richer by placing Ids monev ;
on the Southern champion. This one was ;
none other than Mandot's father, who
Let S4OO his s..n would defeat ti e Mexi
can
Mandot s next step w ill be to challenge
Ad Wolgast fir the lightweight cham
pionship However, the little tighter savs .
.u will take a good rest before appearing
m the ring again
• • •
Happy Tim McGrath. who manage.! I" l
dle t'ampl, the san Francisco Bantam
weight. in his bout with Young Chleo, in
I. - Ar g. i.-x, In it M.ndaf. is quite a
“thiii lor the newspaper men on the i
coast McGrath always has a tale to .
tell ai.ll he never tells the same one Tim '
although It was nor g, nerailv '
known Jeffries and Sharker fought the
twentf fifth roun.: of their I'onev Island
tight over after Tom Kot out of the hos
pital In the twenty-fifth round. Jef
frie-.' glove came oil. but the former '
■ hainpion !i<l rot stop lighting but hit
Shark. - -.everal t'mes with his bare list
At no .>ne wtlnteil this to appear In the
n orii g | Im,-, both fighters agreed to
tight the last round over.
• • •
<4- v- i. »r I‘eneen .if Illinois, would not
alloo ote’s to stage a ten-round ex
o !" .n between .lack Foreman and Jack
I'arish. at Cairo. Labor da> The pro
nt"' '' I'" 1 ' ariangod to stage the right on
a ferrj boat, but had to call it off whan
Sheriff I’tazier notified them of the gov
emor's action.
• • •
1 ' v nans get of the Tux< do
<1 ,b. san I- nii.cbio, has w ired \d Wol
gac an offer f 115.000. win. los. «»r draw.
o tight a twenty-round bout with Willie
Kltr! io, at bis club. Thanksgiving day. 1
if t' c thamiuon d»" s not accept Grane> s ;
‘iffer. an effort will be made to match
Mandot with Ritchie.
’ ’
1 ><•**'. the vft ran \ustrabui. who i
as .an ’»-d some P e best fighters in
‘ "i- • --s r .it Sheridan Park hos- i
J Hal. '!) Chicag in bid sbat'p ns the re- i
suit f a sired cat . ..nt which Lap- 1
Z'TI?: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND XEWS. WEI>XESDAA\ SEPTEMBER 4. 1912.
Reynold# had a stvell chance to
achieve headlines, but Kissinger
tightened up like a drum and the
big catcher hoisted one to Halli
nan and let it go at that.
It was a good, snappy finish all
right, and th" fans yelled as they
haven't yelled in many a week.
It would be a total loss of white
paper to narrate in detail how the
multitudinous runs yvere scored
of the features of the game
was Johnson’s great head work
in changing his shoes. In the first
of the ninth, after a base <Ki balls
and a scratch hit had made it look
as though the Turtles yvere up to
their old tricks again. Johnson
stopped the game walked to the
Cracker bench, borrowed a pair of
shoes from Manager Alperman and
donned them After that he yeas
invincible He inveigled Doc Sea
bough Into hitting into a double,
and the inning yvas over.
* • •
qpilE Memphis team did some no
table hitting. Kerr showed his
versatility by getting two singles,
walking onee, allowing himself to
be hit by a pitched ball once and
hitting one fielder's choice.
Schweitzer captured one base on
balls, singled tyvice and hit one
double. Baerwald also batted well,
but got In Dutch by loafing pal
pably on Callahan's hit in the
eighth, which yveni as a three-bag
ger, thanks to his languid work
• « •
ALERTNESS pulled Rube Ixis
4 * singer out of one bad hole.
With two doyvn in the fifth Bales
and Hallinan made errors, allow
ing Johnson and Agler life Har
bison was next at bat. With tyvo
strikes on him he turned to rub
his hands in the dirt. While he
was thus engaged. Kissinger slip
lied over the third strike and re
tired the side.
pened several weeks ago. Foley, who is
without funds, has appealed to his friends
for aid.
• • •
Abe At tell, former boss of the feather
weights. is .seeking a *»turn match with
Champion .hdnny Kiibane. Attell lias
picked up Herb Brock, a coast light
weight, and swears his rind” is destined
to become a champion in a very short
time
• * *
hie Hirst made Packet McFarland ex
t< nd bimeelf to the very limit several
times during their six-round tight at Phil
adelphia re. utl> according to The Phil
adelphia Ledger The wuter s.-tvs the
whirlwind had better cultivate several
streaks of muscle across his stomach be
fore he meets Champion Ad Wolgast. in
N’ e w Y ork
TY COBB SELLS NAME FOR
TRADE MARK ON SHOES
\ K\V YORK, Sept. 4 According th the
official report of United States Commis
sioner of Patents Moore, just issued, the
autograph signature and name "Ty
Cubb.'' of Tvrus R. Cobb, the baseball
star, of Royston. Ga has been made the
trademark of a rich manufacturing cor
poration <»f Brockton. Mass., and certifl
cate of registration on the signature has
been Issued as serial No. f.H’.o, in class
39. of clothing. f.>r use on their brand of
sporting shoes.
Ihe corporation claims they acquired
from Ty Cobh the right to use this sig
nature as a trademark and have so used
it since October IS. last vear
The amount paid Cobb in consideration
for its use is not stated
LOCAL CHECKER EXPERTS
IN KNOXVILLE TOURNEY
Lieutenant T .1 Driscoll, of the At
lanta fire department, accompanied by
Sprague Hall. \V s Newman and G R.
Bishop, will represent .Atlanta in the
>w>uihern chec'-vr tournament, which will
li held at Knoxx-ille on September I’
and 12
These placers arc among the best of
the bu-a cracks and Atlantans belief,’
that tl, -f f, 'll be able to bring back the
laurels from the meet.
14 M REPORT
FOR FIRST HK
OUT ST TECH
>■'<, :rteen candidates for the 1912
football team Reported at Tech flats
yesterday and were given their first
workout of the season. Leuhrmann
and Thomason are the only varsity
men who have reported so far, but
many more are expected to blow in be
fore the end of the week.
I'or their first work, Coach Heisman
simply carried the players through a
physical culture drill which took up
most of the time. He also allowed
them to do some passing, punting and
falling dn tlfe ball in order to get their
muscles hardened as soon as possible.
Os all the men who were out for prac
tice not one came up to the standard
weight.
Coach Heisman will have the boys
out for practice every afternoon at 4
o’clock.
THE BASEBALL CARD
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Memphis in Atlanta Ponce DeLeon.
Game called at 3:30 o’clock
Nashville in Chattanooga.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.C. W. L. P.C.
B’harn. . 80 4H .621 N'ville. .59 67 468
Mobile 74 55 .574 Mont. .60 6*» .466
N. Or 68 60 .531 C’nooga. 57 67 .460
M inphis 63 65 .492 Atlanta. 48 77 .3X4
Yesterday's Results.
Memphis 8. Atlanta 6.
Mobile 3. Montgomery 2
Nashville 3, Chattanooga 1.
Birmingham 6. New Orleans 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Philadelphia in New York.
Washington in Boston.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P C W L. PC.
Boston 89 37 .706 Detroit. .58.71 456
Wash. . 78 51 .605 C’land .55 72 433
Philo. 75 -51 .595 N. York 45 80 .360
Chicago. 63 62 .504 i S. Lottis 44 83 .346
Yesterday's Results.
Washington 4. Philadelphia 2.
Chicago 5, Detroit 2 (first game.)
Chicago 6. Detroit 6 (second game.)
New York-Boston, rain.
Cleveland-St. Louis, off day.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
New York in Philadelphia
St. Louis in Cincinnati.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. P C W L. PC.
N York. 84 37 695 C nati. 62 65 488
Chicago. 80 44 .645 S. Louis 54 71 .432
P’burg. 72 53 .576 Br’klyn. 45 78 .366
Phila. .61 61 500 Boston 38 87 .304
Yesterday’s Results.
Chicago 5. Pittsburg 2 (first game.)
Pitsburg I. Chicago V (second game.)
Boston 5. New York. 1.
Philadelphia 5. Brooklyn 4
Cincinnati 7. St. Louis 1.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.C W. L. P C.
M’apolls 96 52 .651 M’w’kee 69 77 .473
C’bus. 91 57 .615 St. Paul 66 84 .440
Toledo 88 60 .595 L’ville. . 55 90 .379
K City 72 73 497 I’apolis. .53 97 .353
Kansas City 8. Minneapolis 8.
Columbus 10. Toledo 4
Louisville 2. Indianapolis I.
Milwaukee 5. St. Paul 3.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. P.C. I W. L. P.C
Toronto. 82 54 .603 M ntreal 63 72 .467
Roch. . .78 56 .582 Buffalo . 60 70 .462
N wark. 68 66 .507 ! J. City .62 74 .456
B’more. .66 66 .500 I P’dence. 57 78 .422
Yesterday s Results.
Providence 5. Newark 3 (first game.)
Newark 2. Providence 1 (second game.)
Rochester 6, Toronto 2 (first game.)
Rochester 9. Toronto 2 <second game.)
Jersey City 7. Baltimore 4
Montreal 4, Buffalo 3.
APPALACHIAN LEAGUE
Standing of the Clubs
W. L P.C. | W I. P.C.
Hr to! .’>« 97 611 I CTland *6 47 .481?
Kxv le 53 46 535 | A’evllie 44 5C .440
.1 City. 47 45 .511 M’town. 38 54 413
Yesterday's Results.
Bristol 4. Johnson City 1
Knoxville 4. Morristown 2
Cleveland 16. Asheville 5
VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. P.C. | IV. 1. P C
P SbUI g 77 49 611 X'foli 61 64 >SB
R'noke 65 53 .551 I P’m’th 55 «rt .478
K mond 64 64 .500 . y x „-s 46 78 371 I
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Yesterdays Results.
Richmond 3 Petersburg 3
Port etnouih 5. Norfolk *
Roanoke I, Newport News u .six in-1
n < 11 ir< 1 j : n 1
Muggsy McGraw Planning Team for Years Ahead
•?•+ 4-S4- 4-s-F *•+ +•+
Giants’ Manager Operates a Training School
By Rube Marquard.
I HAVE often marvelled over the
fact that even in the heat of a
pennant race, such as the one
in w hich our club is noiv engaged,
Manager John J. McGraw, of the
Giants, finds time to give the fu
ture a good deal of consideration
and to maintain a training school
for the production of baseball
stars for the years to come.
You would think that a man
fighting for a championship would
forget the future—and most man
agers would; but not McGraw, it
is further evidence of the base
ball genius of the Giant chief that
he can keep in front with one
bunch of ball players and at the
same time build underneath them,
as you might say, a second team
to eventually take the place of the
first string.
The average manager bases his
success on picking up men w ho are
naturally good ball players, and
who only require a little devel
opment. McGraw needs only the
roughtest material of youth and
speed to form his teams. He is
especially a manufacturer —a
maker of players From one end
of the season to the other he has
a training school operating In the
midst of his regular ball club, and
he manages to find time to produce
one or two stars a year, even
while the tight for the pennant is
raging.
In v. hat you might call his bench
primary class, McGrayv now has
FODDER FOR FANS
“A ball player is a fool tn pay any at
tention to what is said to him on the
fieW' Bill Sweeney
* • •
Head in a Buffalo paper “Napoleon
Lajoie is Among the Real Second Base
Kings.’ Perchance, also it might be ad
mitted that “Ty Cobb is One of Our Best
Little Batsmen’’ and “Waller Johnson is
one of the Cleverest of Washington’s
Pitchers.’’
• • •
Dolly Stark, ex-Southern leaguer, per
petrated a run-in with Umpire Jack Dunn
at Buffalo and is now adorning the bench.
• * *
Claude Derrick isn’t playing with Bal
timore at present. He is suffering with a
savage charleyhoss.
♦ * ♦
Minor league stars have come high this
year, but they had to have them. There
have been no record sales, but the White
Sox gave SIO,OOO for Catcher Ray Schalk,
of Milwaukee, and have agreed to pay the
same amount for Liebold and Uhappelle
of the same club. Detroit paid Kansas
City $12,000 for Corridon and Cleveland
gave up SIO,OOO for Chapman (stage*
money, maybe.)
• • •
Arthur Fromme allowed -’A hits in eight
consecutive games recently, an average of
less than five to the game.
• * *
In conceding, as he did on September 1.
that the Red Sox had gone away with the
American league pennant Connie Mack
finished about two millionth in the
American league guessing contest. \ll
the rest of us had piped it off a week be
fore.
♦ ♦ *
Here is a list of the fn biggest big
league disappointments of the year:
Teams. Cardinals. Browns. .Naps. Ath
letics. Phillies.
Players Marty O’Toole. Joe Willis,
George Chalmers. Del Gainer. Chief
Bender.
• • i*
'l’he Pelican fans don’t believe in giving
up their money. And when Knaupp col
lected $24 for a home run Sunda' it was
the first time money had been tossed to a
player in New Orleans for four years.
Perryman, who goes to the Giants this
fall, has lost eight games for Richmond.
In seven of them not a run was scored for
♦ * ♦
him by his teammates.
Birmingham has scored the most runs
<f any ham in the league <499». but the
M< bile team has allowed its opponents
the least (.143). The Crackers rank third
in the nomlier of runs si ored. but the'
hi-ve allowed more than anv other team
in the league
• • ■
A new umpire was working in the
America-: assoc at ■ . lube Waddell hit
a clean home run, but the umpire called
" ■ foul ball Joe CantiHoh, the Mfnne
anol « manager, rushed up to the umpire.
"o blow ' s head off hut didift.
'■'.is s what the umpire said that made
him fle«;st:
*• • I
“Keep from mt, keep awaj frum
half a dozen young pitchers, and
that number yvill probably be in
creased before the close of the sea
son. as several others are ex
pected to report. In addition to
this primary class, McGrayv has
another more advanced grade of
students, composed of infielders
and outfielders who yvill one day
be stars of the game.
Sits on Bench and Learns.
A most striking example of the
McGraw system is furnished by
young George Burns, an outfielder.
Any other manager in the league
would probably have hurried a boy
of Burns’ natural ability into the
regular line, with a prospect of im
mediately developing any weakness
that he might have, rather than his
strength. Burns can hit well, and
is very fast. He is also a crack
fielder. All he lacks is.experience,
and he is getting that under the
McGraw method of sitting on the
bench and watching.
Burns reported to the team last
fall, and played in a few games.
He went to Marlin with the re
cruits, and the fact that he was
one of the few retained showed
that McGiaw thought highly of
him.
Then his education commenced.
He plays in exhibition games. Once
in a while he is sent up as a pinch
hitter, but generally he sits on the
bench dujing the championship
game watching and listening. He
sees and hears about the mistakes
of others. He hears McGraw's ob
servations. and the observations
me. If you get me excited 1 can’t do a
thing.”
♦ • »
When Hamilton pitched a no-hit game
against Detroit the other day he was the
second American league left hander who
had ever done it. Jesse Tannehill was
the other.
• • •
Jim Fox’s great shewing in winning the
second Half of the Sally league season,
coupled with his previous record
with Columbus, should make the former
Cracker first sacker a strong favorite lor
a job as manager in the Southern league.
Jim doesn't look like a manager, but,
then, neither does Connie Mack.
* ♦ •
Well. Jimmy Johnson has broken the
Southern league record for stolen bases.
He passed Joe Rickert’s mark on Mon
day. By the way, didn't we predict that
a couple of months ago’’
• • •
Birdie Cree, whose wrist was broken by
a pitched bail, has rejoined the Highland
ers.
• * »
One thing the Giants have on the Red
Sox is base stealing ability. Still, that
didn’t get them much against the Ath
letics.
♦ • ♦
Doc White is to manage the Sacra
mento team of the Coast league next sea
son.
JACKSONVILLE AND
COLUMBUS MEET IN
FIRST GAME TODAY
Tlie post-season series of seven games
to decide the pennant winner in the
South Atlantic league will begin at Jack
sonville today.
■The teams will play seven games, if
necessary. The first three games will be
played at Jacksonville, the second three
at Columbus, anif in the event that a sev
enth is necessary the city showing the
largest attendance will get the deciding
game.
Morrow or Weidell will work for Co
lumbus. while Abercrombie will pitch for
Jacksonville, in the first game of the
series.
KILBANE FIGHTS DUNDEE
TONIGHT; DEFI FROM ABE
NEW YORK. Sept. 4 —When Feath
erweight Champion Kilbane meets
Johnny Dundee tonight in a ten-round
bout at the St. Nicholas Athletic club,
he probably will receive a challenge to
box Abe Attell, from whom Kilbane
"on his title on the coast. Attell told
his friends today that he would be at
'he ringside and would challenge Kil
bane.
of the older players. He is learning
the weaknesses of the opposing
pitchers.
Some day he may take his place
in the regular line, and when he
does he will be practically a fin
ished outfielder. McGraw does not
believe in putting an inexperi
enced man Into critical games,
whether he is a pitcher or an out
fielder, or anything else, and the
wisdom of his course has been
proven time and again.
Arthur Shafer, the crack Cali
fornian, can hardly be classed as s
recruit student. He could take nis
place in the regular line right
now. He has gained his experience
as the others must gain it, and he
is out of the regular line only be
cause of the fact that equally bril
liant players who have the added
value of longer service stand in his
way.
Arthur Fletcher had to take bis
turn on the bench until last yea:,
when the trade for Herzog opened
the way for regular service, and
Fletcher has been a great player
from the moment he broke in.
Fred Merkle sat back for several
years, and so did Herzog when he
flrgt joined the Giants before going
to Boston.
Meyers Worked Way Up.
Chief Meyers played second fiddle
for a time when he joined the
Giants, but finally worked his way
to the position of first catcher of
the club. Now, Arthur Wilson, a
very fine receiver, is the second
man. while behind him is Grjjyer
Cleveland Hartley, who will some
day be a great star.
McGraw does not try to hur y
the development of a man. He goes
along slowly and carefully with
him, studying not only his ability,
but his temperament, and the day
that McGraw says a man is ready
you can wager he is. That is usual
ly true, too, when . McGraw . says a
man is done. His mistakes in judg
ment on ball players have been
mighty few and far. bet ween. How
many youngsters discarded by him
after trials have become stars’’
Beneath his brusque mannerisms
and way of speaking McGraw has
an infinite patience. Errors of
judgment may irritate him. but er
rors of hand’s.or feet are never no
ticed. A "boot" means nothing to
him A "bone” arouses his ire He
will take hold of a youngster who
is so raw that the average manager
would probably release him after a
glance; work him along very pa
tiently, until one day he presents a
new star.
I believe that McGraw can see a
ball player quicker than any man in
the business. I doubt if It takes
him more than a day or so to cor
rectly estimate a fellow, and many
a time he has demonstrated his
judgment by turning loose some
youngster whose work most peon *
thought stamped him as a coming
sensation, and clinging to anothr
raw recruit, who has shown the
casual observer nothing.
McGraw “Saw” Tesreau.
Last spring. I remember, there
was a great deal of talk about thi*
and that recruit pitcher In tm
training camp McGraw ove:hei"
some of thd correspondents dis
cussing the different men, an
finally he remarked quietly:
"Well, you fellows can have ,
that kind—l'll take this big b ”
Tesreau for mine.”
And Tesreau has fulfilled Mr
draw's judgment.
McGraw likes players of his or n
making. He makes fewer deals f ’
men from other teams than an) '
the managers. He prefers a play<
who has been through his own I
sonal school. He would pay an'
amount for an experienced playn
if he felt that the veteran co
help him win a pennant, but as a
general proposition you w ould ha''
a ha"d time handing him an oM'
timer from some other team H*
likes his own productions.