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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. a man s md oh is playing Tl .„ 1 r •••••••••••••••••••••••••• •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, • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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. • • a 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. ♦ ♦ ♦ “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. ♦ * ♦ Harry Davis may go back to the Ath letics next year. He is needed as as sistant manager of the Philadelphia team » • A 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 • ♦ rt "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.