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Balk, Hardest “Play” for Fans, Is Explained by Expert Monty By Monty. DESPITE the frequency of its appearance in the box score, the balk is ape of the un- !ved mysteries to the average . It is about as mystifying as ... mumbled confab between ref ,■■ -e and boxers just before the : t nlng gong in all well regulated bouts. spectators are not the only tines • n dreadful darkness as to what .. ii.~tilutes a balk, and why. Um pires players and rule makers i hemselves are more or less at sea regarding it- exact limitations and d- marcations, whatever they are. If a. pitcher has no •‘motion" or wind-up, he can hardly nope to suc ceed in "big league time." The movements of his delivery are sup posed to keep the base runner guessing, and at the same time must still be within the limits im posed on balking. Unless a pitcher can violate the spirit of the balk rules without transgressing the common inter pretation of their wording, he has a lot to learn. Let any team fig ure out a pitcher's “motion" so that its players tan guess with any de gree of certainty when he is going to pitch and when he intends to throw to a base, and the men on that team will steal bases with comparative impunity. Baik Is a Mystery, Sidestepping all the delicate points and shades of points on which good authorities differ, there is a great deal of prevalent mys tery regarding the balk which can he dispelled. To begin with, there ate nine kinds of balks. Probably you thought a. balk was simply a bluff to pitch or to throw to a base without going through with it. Sometimes a bluff to throw to a base is a balk and sometimes it is not: sometimes a bluff to pitch is a balk and sometimes it is not. Some times to throw to a base is a balk, and sometimes a ball pitched squarely over the plate without any pause in the motion is both a balk and a ball for the batsman. A balk is not a balk unless there Is a base runner, but some balks are called balks if the bases are empty. Here are the nine ways of making a balk: Nine Ways To Make Balk. 1. The pitcher starts to de liver the ball to the batsman or to throw to first base when there is a runner on first base, and does not complete the pitch or throw unhesitatingly. 2. If the pitcher throws the hall to any base occupied by a runner and does not step di rectly toward that base making the throw. 3. If the pitcher delivers the ball to the batsman while either foot is back of his slab. 4. If he pitches the ball with out facing the batsman. j the baseball card SOUTHERN LEAGUE. , , Games Today. Nashville in Atlanta at Ponce DeLeon Game called at 2:15 o’clock. Montgomery in Birmingham ■Mobile in New Orleans. ■Memphis in Chattanooga. Standing of the Clubs. p V Pc I w L- PC. .. ' ’ *2 ’• .626 x ville. 62 67 ISI y' >h f ' |p 12 55 577 ! C’nooga. 59 68 *65 "•■ h 8 M .531 j Mont. .60 72 .455 M mphis 54 58 .485 I Atlanta. 49 SO .380 Yesterday's Results. Nasht ille ’, AUanta 0 hartanooga .3, Memphis o. ■ ' i ng am 6. Montgomery n. •M "bile-New o r ] eanß . ~ff day AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. ■ eland n < 'hicago. •'* Louis i n Detroit. ' ashington in Boston. Standing of the Clubs. t „ Ji r c W L. P.C. Ep‘ n ?2 »< 713 Detroit .59 72 451 , ", <» 52 .600 C land. .58 73 .434 y .8 54 .591 N. York 44 83 357 ago 64 64 .500 S Louis 45 83 .352 Yesterday’s Results. ■■ ' land o, Chicago 2. I-ouis I, Detroit 2. p /’ ? Washington 0. Philadelphia 4, New York 2. NATIONAL LEAGUE. . Games Today. *' "ii in Brooklyn. York in Philadelphia. ~ ago in Cincinnati. 1 "’■‘-burg in St. Louis. Standing of the Clubs. V . .W.L. PC i W. L. P.C "'I 89 38 ..til ' Phila 62 66 IX4 I, . 81 46 .638 S. Louis 55 75 .130 7. '6 75 53 .586 I Br’klyn. .48 78 381 ■ 1 63 67 .485 I Boston 38 70 .297 Yesterday's Results. !■ " "k!> n 2. Boston 1 • Dirk 3. Philadelphia 0 ifirst garnet (i iork 9. Philadelphia 8 (second 1 rii" ago 6. Cincinnati 5 1 "Dburg 8. St. Louis 0 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Today. ' iiiinbus "ii Louisville l io in Indianapolis. Milwaukee in Minneapolis Kansas City in St Paul. Standing of the Clubs, W. L. pc. I W L. P C. 1 a Polis 9< 54 .642 M u l.ee 72 77 484 'ms 1.3 58 .616 I S. Paul 67 86 .438 u-do 89 62 .58"' | L’ville. 58 93 385 K L’Lv 74 71 .500 I I spoils .53 99 .349 Yesterday's Results. '""sa.- cjtj 5 Minneapolis 4 I aul 6 Milwaukee 5 r.oii.svilie 6. Indianapolis 4. "lumb.is 3. Toledo 0 SCHOOL BOOKS. MIL LER S BOOK STORE, 39 MARIETTA STREET. 5. If he pitches the ball without keeping one foot on the slab. «. If the pitcher holds the ball so long that, in the umpire's opinion, he is doing it to de lay the game. 7. If the pitcher gets into position to pitch without hav ing the ball in his possession. 3. If the pitcher makes any of the motions habitually used in pitching to the batsman and does not go through with the delivery to the plate. 9. If the catcher steps out side the lines of his position pi-eparaiory to receiving a pitched ball. When a balk is decided for any of these causes, every base runner advances one base without liabil ity to be put out, because the de j daring of a balk automatically puts the ball out of play. If there are runners on third and first bases, for instance, and a balk is made toward first, both runners advance one base. It is easy to remember that every base runner is entitled to one base on every' balk, but the batsman does not go . to first. The umpire is supposed to de clare a balk without being appeal ed to, but he seldom has that chance, for 1,000.000 claims of balks are made by the coaehers for every balk declared. The pitcher can not make a balk unless he is on the slab. A bluff throw to first base is not a balk unless first base is occupied. A bluff throw to second or third base never is a balk, but if the pitcher stands in his position and makes a throw to any occupied base with out stepping toward the base, it Is a balk Three Are Obsolete. The fourth, sixth and eighth w ays of making balks practically are dead letters. The pitcher is not required to face the batsman all the time he is going through his motions. No one recalls when a pitcher was penalized for delay ing the game by holding the ball while on the slab, and every good pitcher makes some of the motions habitual to his delivery every time he makes a throw to a base. The third way of making a baik is for the pitcher to start with one foot behind the plate and take two steps in his delivery. In the detection of this kind of balk, Clark Griffith is » world's cham pion. but he seldom gets them called. The first, second, seventh, eighth and ninth ways of balking do not affect the batsman. When the bases at e ail empty and the pitcher makes a balk of the third, fourth, fifth or sixth kinds, the umpire calls a ball. For instance, if the pitcher lakes two steps or fails to keep one foot on the slab, it is a ball, no matter it it is otherwise a perfect strike. —1 international league. Games Today. Toronto in Montreal. Rochester tn Buffalo. Baltimore in Providence. Jersey City in Newark. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C. I W. L. P.C. Toronto .83 56 .597 Buffalo .62 71 .166 Roch. .80 56 .588 I M'treal. .63 74 ,46i> , B’nrore 69 67 .507 | J. City . 62 76 .149 N’wark. .68 66 .507 . P'dence. 58 79 .424 I ——- Yesterday’s Results. Providence 1.1. Baltimore 1 Toronto 10. Buffalo 7. Rochester 9, Montreal 4 other clubs not scheduled. DAZZLE PATCH. 2 YEARS OLD. BREAKS RECORD HAMLINE. MINN . Sept. 7.—Dazzle Patch, son of Dan Patch, lowered his own world’s record for a two-year-01d... half-mile pace, here yesterday, going the distance in :58 1-2. one second bet ter than the time he made last week. Dazzle Patch was paced by a runner. Correct Proverb Solutions Picture No. 63 Picture No. 64 //'// 4 O 4 that LA-re’ k i 7/14FtgSbx‘"" l ,4< - wR/7 jR X: ,r a 'j | .;*■ S ! ''H 1 • _-«<rV -//Z?/ !■■ ' *« ~ ua >’ -QAr*v ij ' -rut out»- 'W® ■_■■■— ■’ I ( I He that can read and meditate will not find He will see davlight through his evenings long, or life tedious a little hole THE ATLAXTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1912 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. Ave. COBB 482 198 .412 SPEAKER 502 200 .398 JACKSON 482 176 .365 COLLINS 451 152 .339 LAJOIE .350 112 .320 All of the “Big Five" practically stood still yesterday. All of ’em secured but one lone hit. Cobb was up three times. Speaker twice. Jackson four times. Co|. lins thrice, and Lajoie four times. TESREAU HURLS NO-HIT GAME AGAINST PHILLIES PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 7.—New- York again won both games of a dou ble-header here yesterday, giving them five victories out of six contests in three days in this city. Tesreau pitched in grand style and after the game was given credit by the official scorer for a no-hit victory , although previously one hit had been reco'ded against him. The disputed play came in the first inning. Paskert hit a fly near the plate for which Merkle and Wilson ran. Each fielder got under the ball. Then fear ing a collision, they permitted the ball to drop to the ground. After the game the official scorer re versed his decision on the play and decided to cross out the hit for Paskert and give Merkele an error, as the lat ter said he had touched the ball when he saw that Wilson would not run into him. MAYER _ GETS OFF TO BAD START WITH QUAKERS PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7. Erskine Mayer, the former Atlanta hurler, made nts debut as a Quaker yesterday and did not prove a howling success. It was in th.e second game of the double-header with the Giants. The Phillies were ahead, 6 to 3, when Mayer went in. Before he was derricked the Giants had scored three more runs. Ma ver having walked two men. hit another', while four hits had been garnered off his delivery. All this took place in tWo innings. TODAY'S PiNK TEA AT PONCEY STARTS EARLY The game this afternoon will be called at the unusual' hour of 2:15 o’clock. This is made necessary be cause the Vols must play according to schedule in Memphis on Sunday. CROSS IS WINNER OVER MALONEY IN 10 ROUNDS PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 7.—Leach Cross, the New York lightweight, out pointed Teddy Maloney, of Philadelphia, in six rounds at the Olympic Athletic club last night. Neither scored a knock down. WORLD'S SERIES START OCT. 8. ST. LOUIS. Sept. 7.—The series for the world’s baseball championship will begin October 8, according to Presi dent B. B. Johnson, of the American league, in a letter to a local paper. The American league pennant winner will not engage in a post-season series witli a picked team of the league, says Pres ident Johnson. The Oldest Blood Disease The most ancient history furnishes evidence that mankind suffered with Contagious Blood Poison. The disease has come down through all the ages and is to-day, as it has ever been, a scourge and blight upon hu manity. The symptoms of Contagious Blood Poison are the same as in its earliest history, but its cure has now become an accomplished fact, where as, it was once considered an incurable infection. S. S. S. is an antidote (s§s) fade away, and when the blood is thoroughly purified no sign of the disease is left. Home Treatment book and anv medical advice free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA. Hernsheim QGAI( I RicXM;. HOTWORKBEGINS FOR TECH TEAM NEXT WEEK Through the dark cloud of gloom which surrounded Tech's football Held there have crept several rays of en couragement in til is first week of prac tice. At the beginning of the week only Leuhrtnann. Loeb and Cook were slated to return, with a few 140-pound second string men. The first practice opened with an unusually large num ber of men on hand, and tlx? number has increased daily. The work has been fairly hard, but the warm weather workouts put the "cold weather bottom” to the whole squad, and Coach Heisman is making the whole bunch sit up and take no tice. So far there lias been just a bit of kicking, passing, falling on the ball and going down under punts, but next week tackling and signal practice will begin. Just h few minutes for review. Loeb, of last year’s varsity, weighing 160. and a good fighter from start to finish, will play center. Leuhrmann. weighing 160. captain and four-year man. will play a guard. Means, 175 pounds, last year’s var sity, will play' the other guard. Means is a powerful man. and should break things up in great shape this year. Elmer Will Come Back. Elmer, weight 190. who played var sity ball for two years, has decided to return and will report next Tuesday. He is bringing a man with him who weighs 180 and knows the tackle job like a master. These men will look out for the tackles. Glover. 185 pounds, all-Wisconsin prep end. will report Monday This leaves one end to be divided between five or six good second string men. So much for the line. The back field deserves a mention also. Cook, light. but a two-year man and very heady, will play one of the halves. "Piggy" Johnson, a quarter back of the “Doc" Wilson label, has finally decided to come back, and will report next week. This leaves the full back and other half open. Hutton, who has played good ball and i« a "back." will be heard from. 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Jack sonville and Columbus will clash again this afternoon in the third game of tlie post-season series for tile cham pionship of the South Atlantic league. Manager Wilder will pitch for the home team, white Morrow is slated to work for the Foxes. Yesterday's game went to Jackson ville to the tune of 4 to 0. The game was called in the first of the eighth inning, on account of rain. Horton, pitching for Jacksonville, was in grand form, and during the seven innings only 21 men faced him. Jones hurled for the Foxes. In the seventh ,1 c locals got to Jones for three hits, and these, with two er ror? sandwiched in and a base on balls, gave Jacksonville tout runs and the game. WOOD WINS FIFTEENTH BY BEATING JOHNSON BOSTON. Sept. 7—Joe Wood boat Walter Johnson ' esterday. winning his fifteenth straight victory tn a spectac ular pitchers' battle, which Johnson sought in the hope of protecting his American league record of sixteen con secutive wins. The score was: Bos ton, 1; Washington. 0. I’he lone tally came in the sixth in ning, with two out. Speaker hit into the crowd in left field for two bases. Lewis, next up. knocked into right field for a double, a hard fly. which Moeller was barely able to touch. Speaker scor ing. Washington had more opportunities to score titan Boston, but Wood was at the top of his game in the pinches, striking out nine men. Johnson fanned five, three of these being consecutive outs in the fifth. The Nationals filled the bases, two men being passed, in the third, and Wood fanned Moeller for the third out. Washington had runners on second in the sixth, eighth and ninth, but they could get no far ther. Wood fanning men for the last out on two of these occasions. CARE OF THE TEETH IMPORTANT TO HEALTH Without perfect teeth one can not enjoy perfect health. Decayed or im perfect teeth are not only painful and continuously annoying, but a positive menace to health and even life. Do not neglect your teeth. 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