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' ' - - / SHOVN CALLED “ THE / B" / ////> ' ’I 7 S,R 15 ihKj . kl<H ONcuC \ X_ 'i' y? jjjL*** ■ * tgu *tsE> :> ■*«iih»- '■ ■■ ■■■ „ „ .. „ / £r 1 -• ca^zaur^j- Chief Meyers Tells How Players Spend Time •M+ *!••+ 4»«+ •!••* 4-»4. 4. e+ Diamond Warriors Are Clannish Off the Field Syf.Tolm Moyers. 1 Giants’ Great Catcher. AFTER the last ball of the-game [ is fielded 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 it Pitts burg:.” or 'Nev York at Boston.” or something like that And until the bulletin boards begin to put up j 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 the hall players been doing in the meantime" How have they got to Pittsburg, or Boston, or wherever they are? How do they travel" How. when abroad, do they spend their mornings be fore the game their evenings aft erward.' 1 remembered Hie other day a little song from a comic opera 1 once saw. It was something about “When the enterprising burglar isn’t burglingand went on to tell of his non-professional life i n very interesting fashion. And though there Isn't any connection between ball players and burglars —except in the matter of stealing bases- it occurred to me that the fans might like to know a little something about the enterprising player when hedsn't playing. Well, suppose we’ve just finished a gam* on the Polo grounds. Our schedule vails for a battle with the Pirates In their home park, of course, the first thing is to get there, end we get there in easier «nti better fashion than any other •or’ of traveler, JHavo Private Pullman Cars. We have twv> private Fufiman care of onr own. always, and they are our traveling home We assem ble at the railroad station some times forty* strong—and just pile aboard and make ourselves com fitrtaJble. In the first place, I might men tforrthe make-upof our party. We carry twenty-41 vn players, as many as the rules will allow, John Mc- Graw, th»> manager. Wilbert Rob inson, coach and assistant mana -40-’ the club secretary and his as sistant; Iff Finley, the club phy . siclan: Ed Mackall, the club train er; Pick Hennessy, our kid mas cot, and often as many as ten or twelve newspaper writers, especial ly toward the end «f a close race. Nobody has to bother about de tails like tickets or berths or bag gage The secretary' has trtat all arranged In advance, and all that the player has to do is to show up at train time If he is regular he takes possession of a Beat which Indicates that his berth, when It is made up. will be a "lower." That's an absolute rule Nothing but the cteam f >r th* first-string players As soon as the train pulls out t h*' Imy- go to their favorite amuse- “fanning. Don’t think a player finishes his game when he sheds his s.(angle- He doesn't. Many a game -.is in. oid al; ovei again as soon as th- boys get together. 'I 'll • .- a little quartet of Us who atv pinochle fans <Tandall I'letch • 1. Briket and tny-elf -a tine lot of Dutchmen we an Wire th. "light-w;ids“ of tin club, betause we don’t risk as much as a nickel on out game- No Tall Gambling Now. Then was a time when there was tall - unbling by the players on trains while traveling from one town to another I've seen as mu li H* JlfO' ' <) < ( II Hl .If j i|| I iiom gam- But that - past, the Via* nt ton. hold on to hr mom .ip.; in ide-, lb. «••••••••••••••••••••*•••• •CLEAR SAILING FOR ’ : GIANTS NOW, SAYS : : chris.mathe.wson: • NEW YORK. Sept. 10.—Serene • • sailing to a second National league • • pennant for the Grants 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. « • McGraw deserves all the credit. • • It was his relentless driving pow- • • er that pushed the pacemakers out » • to a fifteen-game lead in the early • • summer, ft 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 for us. • •Heis 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. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••« Giants play a little poker, of course, but it's only a 25-cent limit gau\e, where a man In hard luck may lose as much as $4 or s*> in a session. Occasionally you'll hear a little singing. Some of the boys have really good voices. Others fancy themselves as vocalists, anyhow Larry Doyle, for instance. He has a voice like "Silk" (t’lxiughlin. the umpire But he sings. He has one pet song about “In the river you may fall and they'll bury you for nothin'—-It's a good world after all." Leon Atnes gets up sometimes and gives us his specialty. He re cites Kiplings poem. "On the Road to Mandalay." in imitation of a hair-lipped man Thai always gets a laugh. The younger, smaller play ers buzz around Big Jeff Teereau like a flock of mosquitoes attack ing an elephant, giving him a good natured kidding until he 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 a* the Giants. Occa sionally some stranger tries to horn into our cars, but he quickly finds he isn't wanted. \t 11 Io every night, whether on a train or In a hotel, everybody must be tn bad That's one of Mc- Graw’s rules and the boys are on their honor to obey it W hen we arm a In another city . there's alway s a string of taxis 01 a fleet ot' busses to take us to thy hotel And it’s always a first-class Imtel. There’s nothing light about us when we travel Were an at traction. and we know it and that* helps box little, receipts People always want to see this club that’s got a Matty and a real Indian, and sometim**-’ a Charley Faust as an adtied attim ti"ii So we don't keep om light under any bushel We’lealw Its pl.tty well sized up m “'ll hole! m a st. .1 ng. < it\ \\ can hnu people say. So they are Hu Giants, 'll I’he nativr can always spot me. because of my In dian appearance. so I’m usually the om they make fm Sa Clmf. which is Matty’" Hmy ask. W> . i. one 1- Johnnv Mi Gtaw Win. - going to pitch t.iria- Chief Th,- ..1i,,., boys give - . f| < laugh bet iu>e Ini th* 1 •» al' the- qip -i i.tnt rs The •k 1 ’ thr -»thl’l pl ax - ; ■ 1,1 - I eiybi.uy ((lough, -puitj a dlu- 1 THE ATI A VTA GEORGIAN AND XEWS. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1912. mond. That seems to be the badge of big league class. One 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 ’re the associ ates of ball players. There's no morning practice on the road, so we re free. Each man goes 10 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. <»f 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 museuna where there are good paintings and statuary, 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 frir mis in each of the cities, and those of us who were college men have their clubs to. go to. I spend a good bit of time in the Dartmouth 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 Io the theaters wherever any of the Ixrmbs are playing. We go in a body, just as we go about every thing. If there are no shows, or we've seen the shows before, we go to the "movies." for we're all picture fans. I don't suppose the average fan ever hears much aljout another subject I'm going to touch upon the letters that ball players get. These 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 mighty funny. I got one the other day from a girl who merely signed an initial, In which she told nie where she was going to sit that afternoon in the grandstand, de scribed her costume and then add ed : When you turn around ami run back toward the stand for a foul fly. as you often do. 1 wish that you would see me and give me some sign of recognition." Imagine a ball player in a tight pimh of a glime looking after a high tly and at the same time handing a woman the ctiautmmua salutel I here s a little indy at home Io whom 1 turn over all of these let ters. I silowed hel Illis, /mi sin sat near the plan- d.-s. libvd by the writ! Sure enough, she told me afterward, as | ran back for a foul, .1 young gn i in blue jumped up and waited for my signal She didn't get It but 1 gut the foul. Kids by the sco i write to me to tell them how to become h cateh -1 When I have time I answer some of these letters, fur they're genuine and sincere; so I've av-, •un ulated quite a aqua I of kid' friends The ball player off the field you s- • is nut much different from am "tin individual. Hi s a littb mori clannish t' an most, his life ,s 1 lift i more regulated, but that's for his own good. I think 'mas; • om. w : , t h.l his pl n- f- -Si.lll makes him a tl th ixtte off, ■■th physically ami 'norally, in th< an igi young 11.. GRIFF WILL TURN Offl PLAIERS TO CMEBS BILL SMITH just naturally hasn't a woru to say about the Atlanta ball i lub for 1913 —except that he’s hopeful. 'Tin under contract with Chatta nooga until October 1.” says Bill. "After that time come around and 1 11 fill your ear full.” At that. Bill has plans. For one thing, as soon as the season is over Bill is going to Washington. He doesn’t know just when he will leave. He A ill stay in Chattanooga until October 1. provided President O. B. Andrews win 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. But first off he will stop at Washington. Griff To Turn Over Men. “Griff writes me he has some men for me," says Bill, "and 1 guess I'll' look 'em over. If they are any thing we < an use, I'll close for 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 done well. F'oi that reason he will want to go back to Charlottesville. But it isn't de cided yet." Os course, when thv proper time • mines Bill Smftii will slip in a few 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. When the first game of the world's series is sprung. Bill Smith will be there. Bill neve' misses a world's series. He's always there Just when Smith will return to Atlanta, be doesn't know yet, but it is probable that he will arrive about November 1 ■ to spend the winter. After he on< e 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 pa-sing that Bill Smith’s ball-elub-to-be handed it to his present charges at Pome DeLeon yesterday afternoon with a score of to 2. The mighty Cove leskie was a trifle wild, and the Crackers made their hits count. Brady was hit briskly, but he got wonderful support, and he kept his hits reasonably well seisttated. The Crackers and the Lookouts hook up again today 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 tile last series of tile tear KLAUS BEATS MOREAU ON FOUL IN 4TH ROUND AIX LES BAINS. ERANC!'.'. Sept Hi Maieel Moreau, the F'rench pugi list. Was disqnalifled yesterdat in Hie fourth round of his fight with Ei ink Klaus, the Pittsburg heavy weight, sot | foul fighting, and the decision was 'awarded to Klaus SELECTS GUN TEAM. .I.V'KSO GA Sept. in. i amain t>. E Mallet of the Jackson Rilles lias '■elected the team that will represent the Lompain at tlto , giimaital shoot ai I Holton Tnut-'iai nd I’rdiat. Be.-idi - ; t aptaln .Mallet. thos< wlm w 111 atti nd Sei geant J. V M'H u>. 11 u f'lornton Lew s Whitt l-“rt, ... I»uk,- l.oal Thurs'on ' |.;_ Turner. Marlin *ll.cl. L A Madd"\. Hornet Harris Golfer Hilton Explains How He Was Beaten *? ♦ *’• V • •? %• • •> 9 V • V Heat and Wretched Putting Eliminated Him By Harold H.lliiton. X A 7 HEATON - [LL i Sept- 10. — VY 11 ' s un f° rtuh ate, but nev ertheless only' too true, thai the amateur championship of the I'nited States, from a partici pant's point of view, interested I Norman Hunter and myself no more after the first few days play. We both fell by the wayside, my I 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 J 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 failed to realize and ap preciate Che 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 ho 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 most evident anxiety at this juncture of the match, he never- 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. Av. COBB 488 201 .412 SPEAKER 505 200 .396 JACKSON 490 180 .367 COLLINS 454 154 .339 LAJOIE 357 115 .322 No names were played in the Ameri can league yesterday. . IF SCOUTS DEFEAT • FOXES TODAY THEY WILL WEAR CROWN 1 I'Ll MBls. GA.. Sept. 10. Colum bus is going to put up a hard fight to w in 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 cop 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 next three. Yesterday's game went to thr- Scouts to the tune of 4 to 2. McCormick, who did the hurling for the locals, was steady all through the game, allowing only four hits. In the seventh the Scours made three of their hits and this, coupled with a misjudged tly by Outfielder Lewis, netted throe runs for the visitors. The other came in the third un a hit. ah error and a sacri ll< <• Columbus scored their two runs in the secehth un a trio of wits. I PRESIDENT BARROW IS HOT AFTER STALLINGS. NEW YORK, Sept 1U -President Barrow, of the lute, national leugm . s has mnoum cd that he will b'ing Man agei Stallings, of Buffalo, befoii the board of direc tens of the International league and compel him to substantiate or retract the charges he made in the Buffalo newspapers against the um • pin - in the Buffalo club's recent series ’ with the Montreal team ! This was the second o’ third tlm this season that Stallings came out < wlto a statement blaming the umpires ' i'nr the nom standing of the club, bu in his hili st outburst he m ,-p went so j fa sis to ac i use the umpires of in 1 teiitton.il \ giving iln isimi- ogams bis team 111 two of ;h» Mnhtlia game-. theless managed to run down two putts of about six or seven yards. ; which managed to put his head well above water. Waldo's Putts Immense. In the morning round he played extremely well, not exactly 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, and 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 sards, and it enabled him to win all the holes which he looked like winning and halve many of tlie holes which he appeared likely to lose. It was rather heartbreaking golf to play against, as ny his accurate short game lie retrieved literally e* et i mistake that he happened to make, but with all this virtue in his ga me. Should Not Have Lost Match. I. nevertheless, should never have lost the match if I could have played my normal game. For some teason or other. 1 could not hit the ball straight with my wooden clubs. I commenced slicing my tee shots, and in trying to remedy this de, feet developed an abnormal hook. I FODDER FOR FANS | The only person connected with the Red Sox who hasn't been given credit for the. I>ennant-w Inning performance is tin bat boy Tne latest man who "won rt for 'em" is "Hghling Bill" Carrigan. Al that he probably did his share. * * • Old Bill Phillips will probably br re tained as manager of the Youngstown team next year. Connie Mack accuses Rube < ddring ami Chief Bender of costing him thr pennant thifc year. • u w “Parson" Niivkolson. the old Detroit sec ond baseman, is 'mt with an interview stating 1 hat the chief difference between the ball players of today and those of a store of years ago is that the> are over coming superstition. “Parson" said he knew an out fielder who wore the same undershirt ail the season through be cause lie thought it brought him good luck • * * * “Don’t ever shuffle the ‘if deck.'" is hred Clarke’s advice to young ball plav ers. « * • It is said that .1. Sheekard has played better ball this year than any time in the |iast ten seasons * « • Kirke, former Pelican, now with Boston promises to finish the season with a bat ting mark well above :>OO. 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 ''libs Li-w downed 1 ho Giants twice while tie was with the Phillies ami once while he was with the Pilgrims. • * - Home Busi, has the lead in Ihe Amer lean league for getting free pa-s.-s He has eighty to bis credit already. Harry Davis may go back tn the Ath- Ictus next year He is needed as as. kistant managi r of the Philadelphia team. Th.- Detroit News says that Tv Cobb's , demand tor sajary will lie sunii'W here be tween J 12.000 and $15,000. • • * Otto I less lias lost seventeen games fur t ooston this >ear. * * a Im-I: Bayless is flatting I'2l fi r Vernon Del Howard is lending Heitmuller. with an average of .355 in fifty-sewn games ♦ a Roy Castleton has won nine games and lost fixe for Vernon this year ® » Izzx Hoffman s suspension has run for twenty-four days now. and he is complaining that he ought to be released or used. • • • When Eddie \insmith was last in Bos. I ton his Camliridge irierds aai. him a lot of tilings Including a reception, a ban i i|uet. .i handbag, i -afetx razor and a , targ imw fneralL I'.ldt. is a native of i amliridgi I Tin Giants s, ~| ...j i un .. ~, two du; la ■ week If they keep that I believe a correspondent, w ho is over here representing the English papers, has suggested that my fail ure 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 way correct, as I could not hit a fu“ shot straight with any of my clubs, and 1 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 try ing 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, but 1 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 clay, when he was at one time no less than 8 down to Paul Hunter, one of the best of the young t'bicago players, the latter, however, found himself only one up with five holes to go. Young Wal do hail taken seven holes from him. up and use it in the world’s series it . will be useful. \ Frank chance has never admitted 'h' the Giants have gone off with the pen nant He continues to jollj his pla'■ along with talks about world’s champion ship nionex. * • * Latest. Roger Bresnahan will manage ’he Rods next year, or anyhow sonn body will or will tr> to. » > • I hex say that the Pirates arc torn shreds b\ internal dissensions, and tlv' Barney Drex fuss is constantly btitUru in on Fred Clarke. Maybe, though t d'o‘ not sound probable. « « • U .foe Wood goes the way nf the "winning streak” pitchers of the season, he will pile up a siring of defeats after 1 pops. Look at Marquard, Dubue in Johnson. President Jacob Smith, of the lachian leagut, sajs ihere is a hundt years of worry in every year as a leag president. George Manush. thp Memphis plumhc’. is second among the batters of the Cen tral association. BRISTOL BEATS ROANOKE IN FIRST GAME OF SERIES BRISTOL. TENN.. Sept. 10. —"Red Munson’s Bristol boosters, chaippions <»l the Appalachian league, yesterday <" seated the Roanoke Tigers, pennant winners in the Virginia league, in the first of th? series of six games, half of which will be jdayed here and the re mainder at Roanoke, by the score of 1 t o 2. W illiams, the star twirler of the Ap palachian. was on the mound for Bris tol. while Burleson, the former Mobi - pitcher, was in the box for the visitor-. Tile locals played an errorless game, and hit Burlison freely, while M Hams was cfl'eetivi'at almost all stag< - of the game. NAT THORNTON VICTOR IN MATCH AT CLEVELAND I ’GEY'ELAND. OHIO. Sept. 111. N 1 hornton. Southern tennis champ: won his opening match in the 'lit state tourney which began here y. s'■ iI- defeated S. a. Manchestt straight sets. The competition is ' the state championship, and a numt" •T I la • ■ i s from the middle West ar participating. DFTRAY TO COACH "OLD MISS." 1 11<'A« ;i >, Sept. 1" l.i-o Detray ' form-r I’nivornry of t’liicugo fmuh s'ar. has < ,| , l( ptract to • " - - i'niveisity nf Missouri eleven 1 Hi « siart work on thr f-p-■ Si ptemli- r 2"