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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 on o t a..a.. No Tall Gambling Now, Tin t. ? a tint wl.cn then was train;, w! < tv i, • S town to anotln r i'v. . 3 as mu It It's * | 1 ’ » playt of t< ht.it;.. on 1. a H ■ U - ; mind • t •CLEAR SAILING FOR • : GIANTS NOW. SAYS : : chris.mathewson: * • • 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. • (••••••eeeeeteeeeeeceeees* 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 ' " ' ■ ■•. So t Hey art 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'.'” . ■ J t\ Im' going ■. > 1 .itch i.-ltiy < nil 1 ' Th, .>ther boys ' ti l m-l 1,. .js,. | |,| th,. | tl ’i i ’tn 1- The '’'.d." : ..... i 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 • 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 -'•••J- -bee. 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- i 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. * « « Old Bis! Phillips will probably be re lained as manager of the Youngstown team next year. • • » . 1 'lack accuses Rube Oldring and . k hies Rentier of costing him the pennant this year. • » • 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 ( ♦ ’’.Don't ever shuffle the 'if deck,’ ” is Fred Clarke’s advice to young ball play / ' .... 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. • » • Pick Bayless is batting .321 for Vernon. Del Howard is leading Heitmuller, with <m average of in fifty-seven games ♦ * » 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. ♦ ♦ » 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. ♦ ♦ • 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.