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Diamond Warriors Are Clannish Off the Field
By Jolm (“Chief’* - ) Meyers.
Giants' Great Catcher.
AFTER thn last ban of the framo
Is fh'klcd and the crowd be
gins to pour out of the park
and the players disappear into the
clubhouse—what then ?
The fans read in their papers
next morning: "New York at Pitts
burg," or "New York at Boston,”
or something like that. And until
the bulletin boards begin to put up
the score, inning by Inning, in the
afternoon, they know little or noth
ing about the men they have been
watching and cheering.
What have th, ball players been
doing in tin meantime? How have
they got to I'itt-bma, or Boston,
nr wherever they are? How do
tin" travel'.' How, when abroad,
do they spend their mornings be
fore the game, their evenings aft
erv a rd?
I remembered the other day it
Hi song from a comic opera J
om <■ .-‘tiw. It was something about
“W hen the enterprising burglar
■ •n’t burgling." and went on to tell
of his non-professional life in very
interesting fashion. And though
there isn’t any connection between
ball players and burglars— except
in the matter of stealing banes —it
occurred to me thnt the fans might
Hlo to know a little something
abrmt the enterprising player when
be Isn’t playing.
Well, suppose woN-e just finished
a. game on the Polo grounds. Our
•dhedltle calls for a buttle with the
Flrates in their home park. Os *
course, the first thing is to get
there, and we got there in easier
•nd better frwtfritm than any other
•ort of tnoveles.
Have Private Pullman Cars.
W« have two private Pullman
ears of our own, always, and they
•re our traveling home. We assem
ble at the railroad station—some
timnti forty strong—and Just pile
aboard end make ourselves com
fbrtable.
In the first place, X. might men
tion the make-up of our party. We
cexry twenty live players, ae many
as the rules will allow; John Mc-
Graw, the manager; Wilbert Rob
inson, coach and assistant mana
ger; the club secretary and his as
sistant; Dr. Finley, the club phy
. siclan: Ed Mackall, the club train
er; Dick Hennessy, our kid mas
cot, and often as many as ten or
twelve newaivaper•writers, especial
ly toward the end of a close race.
Nobody has to bother about de
tails like tickets or lierths or bag
gage The secretary has that all
arranged hi advance, and all that
the player has to do is to show
up at train time. If lie I.- regular
he takes possession of a sent which
indicates that his berth, when It is
made up, will be a "lower.’' That's
an nbsolliti i ilc Nothing but tin
■ cream for th< hrst-string play. rs.
As soon a; th< train pulls out
ti'i boys go t.. their favorite amuse
m*i.t aed playing, reading or
11 oh - D ui’t think a i lav er
fii.i | cs hi- ..ano when he -heds his
■■ • ■ 1 ■ He <1 ■ m’t. Many a game
' ■ .1 again as soon
■ Ito ’ S J t t ■ til.
T - i llttl. luartei of us who
■ pinochle fans—Crandall Fletch
' 'r, lb k< i and my elf . fine lot of
Dm n w« an We’re the
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No Tall Gambling Now,
Tin t. ? a tint wl.cn then was
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•CLEAR SAILING FOR •
: GIANTS NOW. SAYS :
: chris.mathewson:
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• NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Serene •
• sailing to a second National league •
• pennant for the Giants will be •
• enjoyed from now on. Our team •
• ha s returned to that brilliant •
• form which marked the early cam- •
• paign, while the scrappy Cub team •
• has verily crumpled and broken •
• in the face of discouraging pitch- •
• ing. e
• McGraw deserves a ll the credit. •
• It was his relentless driving pow- •
• er that pushed the pacemakers out •
• to a fifteen-game lead in the early •
• summer. It was his ‘‘never-say- •
• die” spirit that tided us over the •
• disastrous slumps of the near past, •
• with the breath of the onrushing •
• Cubs warm on our heels. •
• Next to McGraw I believe Tes- •
• reau has done the most fo r us. •
•He (s a remarkable youngster. •
• Outside of the box I believe the •
• Cubs are the same old irrepressi- •
• ble machine. A gamer team never •
• lived than that Chicago bunch. •
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Giants play-a little poker, of course,
but it’s only a 25-cent limit game,
where a man in hard luck may lose
as much as $4 or $5 in a session.
Occasionally you'll hear a little 1
ringing. Some of the boys have
really good voices. Others fancy
themselves ns vocalists, anyhow.
Larry Doyle, for'instance. He has
a voice like "Silk" O’Loughlin, the
umpire. But he sings. He has one
pet song about "In the river you
may fall and they’ll bury you for
nothin’—lt’s a good world after all."
Leon Aines gets up sometimes
and gives us his specialty. He re
cites Kipling’s poem, "On the Road
to Mandalay,” in imitation of a
hair-lipped man. That al’’•t vs gets
a laugh. The younger, smaller play
ers buzz around Big Jeff Tesreau
like a flock of mosquitoes attack- .
Ing an elephant, giving him a good
natured kidding until lie sweeps his
big arms and chases them.
Noisy Bunch of Pals.
It’s like one big family a lively,
noisy bunch of pals. Once in a
while some fellow gets a grouch
and sits off by himself for a time,
but he always comes out of it soon.
I never saw a group of men in any
business so genuinely attached to
each other as the Giants. Occa
sionally some stranger tries to horn
into our care, but he quickly finds
he isn’t wanted.
At 11:30 every night, whether on
a train or in a hotel, everybody
must be in bed. That’s one of Mc-
Graw s rules, and the boys are on
their honor to obey it.
When we arrive In another city
tin io - always a string of taxis or a
ll’. t of buss.- to take us to the
l”'t< I And it’s alway .- a first-class
* ng tight about
- vv I” It we travel. We re an at
traction. and we know it. and that
helps box other receipts People
aAv ays want to see this club that’s
- " -'lattv and a real Indian, and
mietitnes a Charley Faust as an
dded attraction. So we don’t keep
our light under any bushel.
\v. T. aivv ays pr,< tty welt sized up
in our u.otel in a -t range city. We
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I'lie nativ, can
alway s -pot me. because of my In
’■'» ‘il’l’eatance. so I’m usually the
oi” they make for.
’Say. t’ldif. which is Matty'.'”
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i.-ltiy < nil 1 ' Th, .>ther boys
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TTTF \TLAXTA GEORGIAN AND NWS. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1912.
mond. That seerps to be the badge
of big league class. 1
fine thing we hear from strang
ers most frequently is, "Have a
drink, old man? Let’s drink one
for good luck in today’s game.”
That invitation is invariably re
fused. Few of the boys drink any
thing at all, and those who do take
a glass of beer occasionally do it
among themselves .always. The
present-day player differs greatly
from the old-timer, who mixed with
every one.
Pleasant strangers, with sensible
questions, we don’t mind, but they
are in the minority to the butters
in who simply want to tell their
friends that they are the associ
ates of ball players.
There’s no morning Ayacticc on
the road, so we’re free. Each man
goes to his favorite pastime. A
good many play pool or billiards in
the hotel. Matty chases off and
plays chess or checkers with some
local expert, of course, every one
knows the big fellow’s skill at all
those heavy -thinking games. '
For my part, I'm an art bug; so
1 dig up some collection that is
on exhibition, or find a museum
where there are good paintings
and statuaryr and spend all my
time there. The Chicago museum
and the Carnegie institute in Pitts
burg are favorite morning haunts
of mine.
I’hen, too, every one has friends
, in each of the cities, and those of
us who were college men have
their clubs to go to. I spend a
- 1,11 ”f time in tht 1 ’«
club in Chicago.
In the evenings on the road the
atergoing is the favorite occupation
of most of the boys. .Mr. Brush,
the owner of the Giants, is a mem
ber of the Lambs club in New
York, and extends the courtesies of
the ball park to the actors. In re
turn, the Giants are invited to the’
theaters wherever any of the
Lambs are playing. \\ e go in a
body, just as we go about every
thing. If there *re no shows, or
we’ve seen the shows before, we
go to the "movies,” for were all
picture fans.
I don’t suppose the average fan
ever hears much about another
subjeet Im going to touch upon-;
the letters thAt ball players gef
The.»e come much more frequently
to the club house at home., but we
get them on the road. too.
Women Write to Players.
A good many are from women
You wouldn't think that a ball
player would have the same expe
rience as a matinee Idol, but he
does. Some of the letters are
nrighty tunny. I got one the other
day from a girl who mer. lv signed
an initial, in which she 'told me
where she was going to sit that
afternoon in the grandstand, de
stribed her costume and then add
cd:
"When you turn around and run
back toward the stand for a foul
fly, as you often do, I wish that
you would see me and give me
some sign of recognition."
Imagine a ball player in a tight
pinch of a game looking after a
high fly and at the same time
handing a woman the chautauqiia
salute!
I’h, re's a lltFl” lady at home to
" b’>".; I t i e over alt of t .■«■>, let
ters 1 showed her this, and she
s.lt m .ir the place described by the
writer. Sure enough, she tolil me
afterward, as I ran back for a foul,
a young girl in blue jumped up I
fm my signal Bh< I
didn't get it—but Igm th, foul. t
Kidt- by the .-cor, write to me to ,
I’ll them lfl>w to Income a cateh
•r When 1 have time 1 answer 1
.-’lll, of tiles, letters, fol th.v're >
veiiuin, and sincere; I’ve ac-
■ umuiated quit. .1 squad of kid
fro nds.
The ball player off the field, von
e. is not much different from I
1 11-,
le t'’ clannish than most. Ids lit,. j s t
a little more regulated, but that s I
fie his own good I think 'most i
■ very on, will .:gr, >■ that his pn>-
!■ ’ll iiiak. s him a tt itl, b, tt. ;
oh. lioi- physically and morally. 1
than th. uve.'age young man. 1
GRIFF WILL TURN
Offl PLAYERS
TO ms
BILL smith just naturally
hasn’t a word to say about
the Atlanta ball club for 1913
—except that he’s hopeful.
' I’m under contract with Chatta
—hoogra until Qctoßer 1." says Bill.
“After that time come around and
I II fljl your ear full."
At that, Bill has plans.
l-’or on. thing, as soon as the
season is over Bill is going to
Washingb ii. He doesn't know just
■ when he # v,i!l leave. He will stay
in Chattanooga until October 1,
provided President O. B. Andrews
will not let him go earlier. He will
then run over to Atlanta for a day
or two and then start North.
Bill's ultimate destination will be
the world's series. Aut first off lie
will stop at Washington.
Griff To Turn Over Men.
Grist whites me lie has some men
for me, ’ says Bill, “and 1 guess I'll
look ’em over. If they are any
thing we tan use, I'll close tor them
then and there."
Asked if he considered it prob
able that Washington would train
in Atlanta next spring, Bill said, "I
don’t know what to think. The
whole trouble is that Clark Griffith
is superstitious. He trained in
Charlottesville this spring, and this
summer he has donh well. FY>r that
reason he will want to go back to
Charlottesville. But it isn’t de
cided yet."
Os course, when the proper time
comes Bill Smith will slip j n a f ew
drafts. He always does that, and
often picks up a batch of good
men. Bill has one of the finest
known system of volunteer scouts,
and he covers a half dozen leagues
with care.
Wh. n the lirst game of the
world’s seritA is sprung. Bill Smith
will be there. Bill never misses a
world's series. He’s always there
•Just when South will return to
Atlanta he doesn’t know yet. but
it -Is probable that he will arrive
about November I‘. to spend the
winter. After he once takes up
his abode in the Gate city, he isn't
likely to beat it out again until the
team travels out on its first trip
next April.
Crackers Won Yesterday
It might be added in passing that
Bill Smith's ball-club-to-be handed
it to his present charges at Ponce
DeLeon yesterday afternoon with a
score of sto 2. The mighty Cove
h.-kic was a trifle wild, and the
Crdckers made their hits count.
Brady was hit briskly, but he got
wonderful support, and he kept his
bits reasonably well seitarated.
The Crackers and the Lookouts
hook up againttodaj This is the
last ladies' day of the season here.
Wednesday comes the final game of
the year on Atlanta soil. Wednes
day night the team beats it away
to Memphis for the last series of
the year.
KLAUS BEATS MOREAU
ON FOUL IN 4TH ROUND
AIN LES BAINS I’RANCE. Sept.
10 Marcel Moreau, the Ereneh pugi
list. was disqualified yesterday in the
fourth round ot his tight with frank
Klaus, the Pittsburg heavyweight, sot
foul fighting, and the decision was
awarded to Klaus
SELECTS GUN TEAM.
JA< KSO>. <IA .s. nt. 1 * ’'a plain G.
E Mallet of the Jackson Rifles, has
select, d the team that will represent
the comp.mx at tin 1 regimental shoot at
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Captain Mall. t, thus, who will att« nd
are Si ige mt J. \ M, < 'lm-,. |> vi
Thornton. Lew s Whit. , Eletchei Duke |
i'laud Tlmrston. I, E. Turner Marlin I
Ball. I A Maddox. I lotm r Ila rris
| Golfer Hilton Explains How He Was Beaten
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Heat and Wretched Putting Eliminated Him
By Harold IL 11iltou.
YTTHEATON, ILL., Sept. 10.—
y y It is unfortunate, but nev
ertheless only too true,
that the amateur championship of
the I’nited States, from a partici
pant's point of view,, interested
Norman Hunter and myself no
more after the first few days play.
We both fell, by the wayside, my
own lapse being chiefly due to a
sudden and complete loss of form,
for which I have not yet been able
to find any explanation except that
it lies in the possibility of the ex
traordinary climatic conditions
having completely upset me. They
have been extraordinary, at least
from a Britisher’s point of view,
as the thermometers have been
within hailing distance of 100 in
the shade for the past week.
American golfers have one and
all been most kind and sympa
thetic over our misfortunes and
have not fail’ d to realize and
preeiate the difficulties under which
we have had to labor.
» To revert to my own defeat at
the hands of young Waldo. The
boy deserved his success, as he
played with any amount of pluck
and conservative determination
and never became seriously per
turbed until-the last nine holes of
the match, when I was quickly
catching him. but notwithstanding
his ifiost evident anxiety at this
juncture of the match, he never-
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The Big Race I
Here is the up-to-the-minute dope
on how the "Big Five” batters of the
American league are hitting:
PLAYER. A.B H. Av.
COBB 488 201 .412
SPEAKER 505 200 .396
JACKSON 490 180 .367
I COLLINS 454 154 .339
; LAJOIE. 357 115 .322
No games were played in the Ameri
! can league yesterday'.
IIF SCOUTS DEFEAT
FOXES TODAY THEY
WILL WEAR CROWN
t'bU'Mßl'S, GA.. Sept. 10.—Colum
bus is going to put up a hard fight to
win today's game from Jacksonville in
the post-season series for the cham
pionship of the South Atlantic league.
The count now stands three victories
for the Scouts and one for the Foxes,
if Jacksonville should eop today, they
will be the winners, as the series is the
best four out of seven. Columbus won
the first game of the series and lost the
nexi tht>’ .
Yesterday’s game went to the Scouts
to the tune of 4 to McCormick, who
did tile hurling tor the locals, was
steady all through the game, allowing
only four hits. In the seventh the
Scouts made three of their hits and
this, coupled with a misjudged fly by
Outfielder Lewis, netted three runs for
the visitors. The other came in the
tilled on a hit. an error and a sacri
fice, Columbus scored their two inns
in the seventh on a trio of hits.
PRESIDENT BARROW IS
HOT AFTER STALLINGS
NEW YORK, Sept. I”. President
Barrow. of the International league,
has announced that he will b ing Man
agei of Buffalo, before the
board of directors of the International
league and compel him to substantiate
or retract the charges he made in the
] Buffalo newspapers against the um
pires in tlie Buffalo club's leeent set ies
with the Montreal team.
Tills was the second or third time
till- season that Stallings eamt out
with a statement blaming the umpire
for tlu poo: standing of tin clui> bui
In his latest outburst he even went so
far is to accuse the umpires of in
i>ntionally giving decision- against
his t.am in iwo of the Montreal games.
theless managed to ran down two
putts of about six or seven yards,
I which managed to put his head
well above water.
Waldo's Putts Immense.
In the morning round he played
extremely well, not exacfly bril
liantly, but sound, speedy golf,
backed up by extraordinarily ac
curate short approaching and
deadly holing out. Never once did
he fail to get down in two strokes,
when within 50 yards of the hole,
md his average putts on the round
must have been less than one and
a half per hole. It was putting of
a sensational order, it was just
continuous deadly work from dis
tances varying from four feet to
four yards, and it enabled him to
win all the holes which he looked
like winning and halve many of the
holes which he appeared likely to
lose.
It was rather heartbreaking golf
to play against, as oy his accurate
short game he retrieved literally
every mistake that he happened to
make, but with all this virtue in his
game.
Should Not Have Lost Match.
I. nevertheless, should never
have lost the match if I could have
played my normal game, h’or some
leason or other, I could not hit the
ball straight with my wooden clubs.
I commenced slicing my tee shots,
and in trying to remedy this de
fect developed an abnormal hook.
FODDER FOR FANS
■ , 'l'lie only person connected with the Bed
. Sox who hasn’t been given credit tor the
i pennant-winning' performance is the bat
boy. The latest man who "won it for
’em” is "Fighting Bill" Carrigan. At
that he probably did his share.
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Old Bis! Phillips will probably be re
lained as manager of the Youngstown
team next year.
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. 1 'lack accuses Rube Oldring and
. k hies Rentier of costing him the pennant
this year.
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I‘arson Nickolson. the old Detroit sec
ond baseman, is out with an interview
slating that the chief difference between
the ball players of today and those of a
score of years ago is that they are over
, coming superstition. “Parson” said lie
| knew an outfielder who wore the same
undershirt all the season through be
cause he thought it brought him good
luck
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’’.Don't ever shuffle the 'if deck,’ ” is
Fred Clarke’s advice to young ball play
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1 V, is I 811 , 1 ! 1 t 2 lat Ftheqkard has plaved
belter ball this year than anv time' in
the past ten seasons.
Kirke, former Pelican, now with Boston
promises to finish the season with a bat
ting mark well above .300. He is "hit
ting ’em" .310 right now.
...
Esmond, of Cincinnati. Is the weakest
regular batter of the National league.
Lew Richie did not develop into a Giant
slaughterer until he hooked up with the
> übs. Levy downed the Giants twice while
lie was with the Phillies and onee while
Ihe was with the Pilgrims.
...
I Donie Bush has the lead in the Amer-
I lean league for getting tree passes. He
has eighty to his credit already
...
Harty Davis may go back to the Ath
letics next year. He is needed as as
sistant manager of the Philadelphia leant.
The Detroit News says that Ty Cobh’s
demand tor salar> will be somewhere bp
tween $12,000 and $15,000.
Otto Hess has lost seventeen games for
Boston this year.
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Pick Bayless is batting .321 for Vernon.
Del Howard is leading Heitmuller, with
<m average of in fifty-seven games
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a ?‘!. e v n has n .' ,n Barnes and
lost live for Vernon this vear
...
Izzy Hoffmans suspension has run
sot twenty-four .lavs now. and he is
complaining that he ought to be released
or used.
When Eddie Ainsmith was last in Bo<-
'■’ll J.ts ’’ami’ll lu friends gave him a lot
I things, including a rei eplion a han
im a. a handbag. safety razor and a
larg- time generally Eddie is a native
of ' ambritlge.
I li' G ...nts sect, si four home runs in
two days last we<R If they keep that
I believe a correspondent, who is
over here representing the English •
papers, has suggested that my f.,i
tire to drive straight was the out
come of my using some new driv
ers which I had acquired in this
country, but that is not in any wav
correct, as I could not hit a full
shot straight with any of my clubs,
and I tried them all. The truth is
something had gone wrong with
the works, and the only explana
tion I can think of is that the ex
tremely trying weather of the pre
vious day, when the qualifying
round was played, had upset me in
some way.
Unable to Putt Well. ’
But. notwithstanding my erratic
driving, I would still probably have
won had I been able to putt, hut I
could not hit the ball up to the
hole, either in my short run-up
shots or my putts. The greens
were heavier than they had been
on account of the deluge of the
previous day. But I was quite
aware of that-fact. I simply could
not hit the ball sufficiently firmly. >
My conqueror is not in any way a
brilliant player, aS his methods are
somewhat studied and methodical.
The following day. when he was
at one time no less than 8 down to
Paul Hunter, one-of the best of the
young Chicago players, the latter,
however, found himself only one up
with five holes to go. Young Wal
do had taken seven holes from him.
I up and use it in the world’s ■serie- it
' will he useful.
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4t^ ra - k ( 'hance has never admitted : at
the Giants have gone off with the ; ■ n- |
nant. He continues to jolly his playprs
along with talks about world’s chanii i n
ship money.
♦u^ a X es ! : Bresnahan will manage
the Reds next year. Or anyhow, some
body will—or will try to.
I hey say that the Pirates are torn to
shreds by internal dissensions, and that
Barney Dreyfuss is constantly butting
in on Fred Clarke. Maybe, though it does
not sound probable.
If Joe Wood goes the way of th? other
winning streak” pitchers of the season,
he will pile up a string of defeats after h?
pops. Look at Marquard, Dubuc and
Johnson.
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President Jacob Smith, of the Appa
lachian league, says there is a hundr*d
years of worry in every year as a league
president.
• • •
George Manush, the Memphis plumber,
is second among the batters of the Cen
tral association.
I BRISTOL BEATS ROANOKE
IN FIRST GAME OF SERIES ,
B.USTOL, TENN.. Sept. ID. Ib’
Munson s Bristol boosters, champions
of the Appalachian league, yesterday
defeated the Roanoke Tigers, pennant
winners in the Virginia league, in the
first of the series of six games, half i f
which will be played here and the re
mainder at Roanoke, bv the score of 1
to 2.
Williams, the star tvvirler of the Ap
palachian. was on the mound for Bris
tol, while Burleson, the former Mobi
pitcher, was in the box for the visitors,
i'he locals played an errorless game,
and hit Burleson freely, while W:l- f
Hams was effective at almost all stag. <
of the game.
NAT THORNTON VICTOR
IN MATCH AT CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND. OHIO. Sept. 10.-Nat
I hornton. Southern tennis champi'” .
won his opening match in the ''h: >
state tourney which began hen- yeste:-
day. He defeated S. A. Manchester in ,
straight sets. The competition Is for
the state championship, and a numbi '
of players from the middle West ■r
participating.
DETRAY TO COACH "OLD MIS 6.”
CHICAGO, Sept. Id'.—Leo Detray, tb--
former t niversity of Chicago footb * I
star, has closed a contract to euai i
Hie I’tiiveisity of Missouri eleven ill'-’
fall. He will start work on the aqinid
September 20.