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By .ToTrn ("‘Chief’**) Meyers.
Giants’ Great Catcher.
AFTER the last ball of the game
!b fielded and the crowd be
gins to pour out of the park ;
and the players disappear into the ’
clubhouse- 1 -what then?
The fans read In their papers
rtext morning: "New York at Pitts
burg,” or "New York at Boston,"
or something like that. And until
the bulletin boards begin to pnt up
the wore, inning by Inntng, in the I
afternoon, they know ttttle or noth
ing about the men they have been
watching and cheering.
What have the ball 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
erw a rd ?
I remembered the other day a
little song from a comic opera I
once saw. It was something about
"When the enterprising burglar
iffn’t burgling," and went on to tell
of his non-professlonal life In 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 mo that the fans might
like to know a little something
About the enterprising player when
he tent playing.
Well, suppose we*ve just finished
• game on the Polo grounds. Our
schedule calls for a battle with the
Plratzv) tn their home park. Os
course. the first thing is to get
there, and we get there tn easier
and better than any other
Sort of traveler.
Have Private Pullman Cara.
We have two private Fill! num
care of our own, always, and they
are cmr traveling home. We assem
ble At the railroad station—some
times forty strong—and just pile
aboard and make ourselves com
fortable.
in the first place, I might men
tion the make-up of our party. We
carry twenty-fivo players, as many
as the rules will allow; John Mc-
Qraw, the manager; Wilbert Rob
inson, coach and assistant mana
ger; the club secrotary and his as
Blatant; I>r. Finley, the club phy
sician; Ed Mackall, the Club train
er; Dick Hennessy, our kid mas
cot, and often as many as ten or
twelve newspaper writers, especial
ly toward the end of a close race.
Nobody has to bother about de
tails like tickets or berths or bag
gage. The secretary has that 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 seat which
indicates that his berth, when it is
made up, will be a “lower." That’s
an absolute rule. Nothing but the
cream for the first-string players.
As soon as the train pulls out
the boys go to their favorite tunusa
ntents—card playing, reading or
"fanning Don't think a player
finishes hi.- game wiien he sheds ills
spkngles He doesn’t. Many a game
is played all oyer again as soon
as the boys get together.
There’s a little quartet of us who
are pinochle fan- -Crandall. I’lot< it
er. Becker and myself -a fln> lot of
Dutchmen we ar> Were the
"tight-wads” of the club, because
wt don’t risk as much ds i nickel
on our ga.ni"
No Tall Gambling Now,
There was a time when there was
tall gambling by the players on
trains whih trav< Ung from one
town to ano; ■ r. I've s. en as much
as si; ooh o $7,0 i .<n the t tide in a I
poker gauie But that’s past, the
Playet of to ,y 1..1..1- on hi
money and, le sides. he knows that
high betting .am. di feeling l><
tv 'll fl bo i» lle.o y ....... o.
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•CLEAR SAILING FOR •
: GIANTS NOW, SAYS J
: chris.mathewson:
• NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Serene •
• sailing to a second National league •
• pennant for the Giants will be e
• enjoyed from now on. Our team •
• has 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 all the credit, •
• It was his relentless driving pow- •
• er that pushed the pacemakers out e
• to a fifteen-game lead in the early e
• 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 for us. •
•Heis a remarkable youngster. e
• Outside of the box I believe the •
• Cubs a r e 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 26-cent limit game,
where a man In hard luck may lose
a« much as $4 or $5 in a session
Occasionally you’ll hear a little
singing SoAe of the boys have
really good voices Others fancy
themselves as vocalists, anyhow l ,
lairry 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' —it's a good world after all."
Leon Ames gets up Sometimes
and gives us his specialty. He re
cites Kipling's poem, "On the Road
to Mandalay," In imitation of a
halr-llpped man. That always 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 he sweeps his
big arms and chases them
Noisy Bunch of Pais.
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 cars, but he quickly finds
he Isn't wanted.
At 11:30 every night, whether on
a train or tn a hotel, everybody
must be in bed That's one of
Graw’s rules, and the boys are on
their honor to obey it.
When we arrive in another city
there's always a string of taxis or a
fleet of busses to take us to the
hotel. And it's always a first-class
hotel. There’s nothing tight about
us when we travel. We’re an at
traction. and we know it. and that
helps box office receipts. People
always want to see this club that’s
got a Matty and a real Indian, and
sometimes a Charley Faust as an
added attraction. So we don’t keep
our light under any bushel.
We’re always pn tty well sized up
in our hotel in a strange city We
can heat people say. "So they are
the Giants, eh?? The native can
alwajs spot me, because of my In
dian at pearanee, so I’m usually the
one they make for.
Say Chief, which is .Matty?”
th"> ask. "Which one is Johnny
-McGraw "Who’s going lo pitch
today, Chief?" The other boy®
give me thi laugh because I’m the
«•'■<’ fol .ill till questioners. The
fan- l an ’ ivi a' izt the other plat -
er> in their street make-ups.
E . it bod', though, spirts a dia-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. 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 are the associ
ates of ball players.
There's no morning practice 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. Os course, every one
knows the big fellow’s skill at all
those heavy-thinking games.
I’or my part, I'm an art bug; so
I dig up some collection that is
on exhibition, or find a museum
where there are good paintings
and statuary, and spend all my
time there. The Chicago museum
and the Carnegie institute fn Pitts
burg are favorite morning haunts
of mine.
Then, 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
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 to the
theaters wherever any of the
Lambs are playing. We go in g,
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 about 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
might) funny. I got one the other
day from a girl who merely signed
an initial, in which she told me
where she was going to sit that
afternoon in the grandstand, de
scribed her costume and then add
ed :
"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 bafi player in a tight
pinch of a game looking after a
high fly and at the same time
handing a woman the Chautauqua
salute!
There's a little lady at home to
whom 1 turn over all of these let
ters. 1 showed her this, and she
sat near the place described bv the
writer Sure enough, she told me
afterward, as I ran back for a foul,
a young girl in blue jumped up
ami waited for my signal. She
didn’t get it—but 1 got the foul.
Kids by the score write to me to
tell them how to become a catch
er. When I have time 1 answer
some of these letters, for they’re
genuine and sincere; so r V e ac
cumulated quite a squad of kid
friends.
The ball player off the field, you
see, is not much different from
ant other individual. He’s a little
mor" clannish than most, his life is
a little mor.' regulated, but that's
for his own good. 1 think 'most
•' "'ll" will agree that his pro-
fusion makes him a trifle better
off, 1...th physically and morally,
than th< averag" young man.
GRIFF WILL TURN
OVER PLAYERS
TO CRACKERS
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
nooga until October 1,” says Bill.
"After that time come around and
I'll 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 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. 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 I guess I’ll
look 'em over. If they are any
thing we can 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 ho has done well. For 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 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 lie covers a half dozen leagues
with care.
When the first game of the
world's series is sprung, Bill Smith
will be there. Bill never misses a
woiid’s series. He's always there.
•lust when Smith will return to
Atlanta he doesn't know yet, but
it is probable that he will arrive
about November 15 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 5 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 separated.
The Crackers and the Lookouts
hook up again today. This is the
last ladles’ day of the season here.
Wednesday comes the final game of
the year on Atlanta soli. 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. FRANCE. Sept.
10.—Marcel Moreau, the French pugi
list. was disqualified yesterday tn the
fourth round of his fight with Frank
Klaus the Pittsburg heavyweight, for
foul fighting, and the decision was
awarded to Klaus.
SELECTS GUN TEAM
JACKSON. GA.. Sept. 10.—Captain G.
E. Mallet, of the Jackson Rifles, lias
selected the team that will represent
the j ompanx at the regimental shoot at
Holton Thursday and Friday Besides
Captain Mallet, those who will att< no
lire Sergeant J. A. McClure D. M
Thornton. Lewis White. Fletcher Duke.
Claud Thurston. I. E Turner. Marlin
Ball. L A Maddox. Homer Harris.
Golfer Hilton Explains How He Was Beaten
Heat and Wretched Putting Eliminated Him
By Harold IL Hilton,
X-TTHEATON, ILL., Sept. 10.—
VV It is unfortunate, but nev
ertheless only too true,
that the amateur championship of
the United States, from a partici
pant's point of view, interested
Norman Hunter and myself no
more after the first few days play.
" e 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 failed to realize and ap
preciate 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 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 games were played in the Ameri
can league yesterday.
IF SCOUTS DEFEAT
FOXES TODAY THEY
WILL WEAR CROWN
COLUMBUS, 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 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 the 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
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
third on a hit. an error and a sacri
fice. Columbus scored their two runs
in the seventh on a trio of hits.
PRESIDENT BARROW IS
HOT AFTER STALLINGS
NEW YORK. Sept 10.—President
Barrow. of the International league,
has announced that he will bsing Man
ager Stallings, 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 the Buffalo club's tecent series
with the Montreal team.
Thin was the second or third time
this season that Stallings came out
with a statement blaming the umpires
for the pool standing of the club, but
in his latest outburst he even went so
far as to accuse the umpires of in
i ent ion." IB giving decisions against
his team in two of the Montreal games.
t
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 lesa 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 haAj;e 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. For some
reason 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 FORFANS |
The only person connected with the Red
Sox who hasn’t been given credit for the
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.
* ♦ •
Obi Bill Phillips will probably be re
tained as manager of the Youngstown
team next year.
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Connie Mack accuses Rube Oldring and
Chief Bender of costing him the pennant
this year.
a a a
"Parson" Nickolson. the old Detroit sec
ond baseman, is out with an interview
stating that the chief difference between
the ball players ot today and those of a
score of years ago is that they are over
coming superstition. "Parson” said he
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 ‘lf deck,’” is
Fred Clarke’s advice to young ball play
ers.
* • •
It is said that J. Sheckard has played
better 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 w-eakest
regular batter of the National league
• • •
Lew Richie did not develop into a Giant
slaughterer until he hooked up with the
Cubs Lew downed the Giants twice while
he was with the Phillies and once while
he was with the Pilgrims.
• « ■
Donie Bush has the lead in the Amer
ican league for getting free passes He
has eighty to his credit alreadv.
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Harry Davis may go back to the Ath
letics next year. He is needed as as
sistant manager of the Philadelphia team
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The News says that Tv Cobb’s
demand for salary will be somewhere be
tween $12,000 and $15,000.
• • ■
Otto Hess has lost seventeen games for
3oston this year.
• • •
Bayless is batting ..321 for Vernon.
Del Howard is leading Heitmuller, with
an average of .355 in fifty-seven games
♦ ♦ •
Roy Castleton has won nine games and
lost live for Vernon this year
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"Izzy" Hoffman's suspension lias run
for twenty-four days now, and he is
complaining that he ought to be released
or used.
• • •
When Eddie Ainsmlth was last in Bos
ton his Cambridge friends gave him a lot
of things, Including a reception, a ban
quet. a handbag, h safetv razor ami a
large time generally Eddie N a native
of Cambridge
• • •
Ihe (Hunts scored four home runs in
two days last week If the.' keep that
I believe a correspondent, who 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 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, but 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 jio 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.
up and use it in the world's series it
: will be useful.
Frank Chance has never admitted that
the Giants have gone off with the pen
nant. He. continues to jolly his players
along with talks about world's champion
ship money.
Roger Bresnahan will manage
the Reds next year. Or anyhow, some
body will—or will try to.
They say that the Pirates are torn to
shreds by internal dissensions, and that
Barney Dreyfuss is constantly butting
in on bred Clarke. Maybe, though It does
not sound probable.
,f J ° e Wood goes the way of the other
winning streak'' pitchers of the season,
he will pile up a string of defeats after he
pops. book at Marquard, Dubuc and
Johnson.
• • •
President Jacob Smith, of the Appa
lachian league, says there is a hundred
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.
BRISTOL BEATS ROANOKE
IN FIRST GAME OF SERIES
BRISTOL. TENN., Sept. 10.-" Red”
Munson s Bristol boosters, champion?
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 of
which will be played here and the re
mainder at Roanoke, by the sc ore of 11
to 2.
Williams, the star twirler of the Ap
palachian, was on the mound for Bris
tol, while Burleson, the former Mobile
pitcher, was In the box for the visitors
The locals played an errorless game,
and hit Burleson freely, while Wil
liams was effective at almost all stages
of the game.
NAT THORNTON VICTOR
' IN MATCH AT CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Sept. 10.—Nat
Thornton, Southern tennis champion,
won his opening match in the Ohio
state tourney which began here yestei -
day. He defeated S. A. Manchester in
straight sets. The competition is for
the state championship, and a numbt •
of players from the middle West ar
participating.
DETRAY TO COACH “OLD MISS.”
1 HR’AGO, Sept la,— Leo Detrav, the
former University of Chicago football
Star. Jias ( lowed a contract to C<MU
th" Universitj of Mlshoiu-I eleven this
fall. He will start work on the squad
September 20.