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RED SOX HAVE CLINCHED PENNANT
The Red Sox have clinched the American league pennant. All possi
bility of the team being overtaken was disposed of when Philadelphia lost
to Chicago yesterday the first game of a double-header.
To relieve the tension among members of his team and to assure final
ly the possession of the pennant for Boston, President McAleer, of the
Red Sox. has notified the management of the New York Highlanders that
Boston would not play off a postponed game scheduled for New York.
Boston now can lose all its remaining fifteen games and win the pen
nant, even though Washington, which went into second place yesterday,
should win all its remaining thirteen games and Philadelphia should win
all its remaining fourteen games. Should this possibility develop, the
final standing would be:
CLUB W. L. PC.
BOSTON 97 56 . 634
PHILADELPHIA 97 57 .630
WASHINGTON 97 57 .630
The league schedule calls for 154 games, but under tie American
league rules Boston can refuse to play its postponed game with New
York, its senes n New York with that club being closed.
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CUNTS' HUHLERS
WILL GIVE SOX
ROUGHTIME
Bj \\. S. Farnsworth.
BOSTON .'uhiiirers are backing
the Red Sox in the world’s
st ies ciiiefl\ because they
believe the pi; Ung staff, composed
of Wood. Collins. O Brim. Bedient
and Ha!!, will pio\* 100 much for
Mnthexxson. .\l;i *i’ia d and Tes
reau. But will it'.’
In a seven-gam* series three
pitcher?. if they ai in condition
can ♦ asily carry tin buuien. So
let us size up. from a Giant view -
point, just how New York’s Big
Three may accomplish all that will
be necessary to bring a world’s title
back to the National h ague.
♦ * •
yATHEWSON has neve fai-.-d
to deliver in the pinches True
ho was beaten by the Boston club
’n the inter-city series in 1908. But
he was far from being right t’m n.
H* had been ill in all the late -ea
son games and he played in that
sei ies against the Red Sox purely
on his nerve.
That series gave Matty a line
on the Boston hitlers. He knows
sone of the weaknesses of that
club and it will not be like work
ing against *al.solute strangers.
The big fellow’? a m U said to be
o K now. and McGraw has or
dered him under no conditions to
let out at top speed until the
world’s series, no maite> if he
loses all the games he hurls until
the National league season winds
up
Just take it f'<im me. Mathew
son will give the Boston sluggers
an awful run for their mon y.
With him working i’ is then that
the Giants will be th*' best bet.
• • •
’p H E fact that T “i iau ha - been
beating the Cubs with iegu
larity of late before eapaeilx houst s
proves that this young man doesn't
"go up" with stage fright. Crowds
of 30,000 have failed to shake him
twice this fall.
Speaker anil Gardner aic the only
left-hanif hitters on (lie Boston
team Now. Testi au has a ‘■well
fast ball, beside s his spitter. ami he
is likely to keep his "smoker" so
close to the eats of the Hubbites
that thee will have an awful time
connecting For Speake anti G:trd
net lie \c ill hat e to r<-ly more on
his spitter.
Jt’ST because Marquard is not
holding down the opposition of
lai- in h handful of scattering hits
like he did calix in tlie slimmer
does not mean anx thing Reports
from Next York have it that .Me-
Gi.ixx is holding him back so as to
hav him piime Octobe S The
Giants' manage: has yelled his
very head off at times of late when
the Rube started to turn 'em loose.
It is against Speaker and Go-d
--in i that Marquard is likely to shoxx
hi- best brand of ifurling Speaker
claims lie can bit a soulhpaxx as
easily as a right-hander. but I
watched him closely last season
and know that lie can not And
Gadner has always been pit for
pm tside slants.
• • «
I N a long series Boston would
have much the best of the
pitching a gument. but in a scries
where the best four out of seven
xxHi win the championship. I don’t
■ee where tin Giants' staff will In
forced to take off their hats.
p ERBON Xbl.Y I .hink that Bos
ton is a la tter balanced, faste:
all-around machine than New York,
and all tilings being equal should
be the legitimate heir of the Ath
letics' proud titli
In only one essentia! do 1 con-
I de New York beite equipped
leadership.
It is impossible tot the most de
vout follow* us .Jake Stahl to
lompare him as a tactician with
Mugirsx McGraw
'l'lll-: tael that tin Red Soy ran
fust to the Athletics in this
with <(»nsidf’<i hi* cast
’ ? <»t thv « lau *»f < ’onim- Muck
1 ’• i «i r w ell know n schi m upon the
’•' • ‘ > ’u the lust ••hampions di*
11! ha*- hud much t<• do uit h
■'‘•‘kiiiK ' ' I . -ion .i fax o’ It
ung I** m\ wax of thinking
TO JAKE STAHL
GOES CREDIT Os
WINNER
By Bill Bailey.
JAKE SI AHL lodax is a com
manding figure in baseball, for
the reason that he is—Jake
Stahl.
You may say til. ( the Red Sox
will represent tin- American league
in the word'* championship series
because they were lucky, of course,
lucky. N am eve
wins a pennant that doesn't get the
breaks in luck But it was Jake
Stahl and the personality of Jake
■Stahl that put the Boston Red Sox
where | U ek would return them pen
nant winners.
Li t s make the ease one of Jake
Stahi vs. luck.
"*' 'I start in by pointing out
wh.it Im k did'. The biggest piece
of luck was the fact that they went
through the American league sched
ule wim scarcely an injury and
with bin mighty fexx men out of
the line-up. Heine Wagner was
injured lor a short time and was
•mt of the game. That’s luck. It's
admitted.
Stahl Back of Whole Works.
But where else did the Red Sox
i ha ’ e luck .'
In the pitching of Joe Wood, h.iv
.(•ill'.' Reim-mbei that Joe Wood
did not come to the Red Sox this
year. He lias been w ith that Bos
ton bunch ever since 1908.
In the great playing of Tris
Speaker .' Tris Speaker has been
with the Red Sox for Io these many
.tears. I refuse to believe that the
showing of Tris Speaker and of Joe
Wood can be traced to luck. I
would trace their great play to
Jake Stahl,
Here is what Stahl did:
Jake Staid took charge of the
Red Sox at tlie right moment.
There had been too much John I.
Taylor. Now. the fellow who was
formerly the sole owner of the Bos
ton team max be one of the grand
est fellows that ever lived, but he
didn't knoxv how to manage a ball
club.
He had a bill elub that possessed
underfill capabilities. But John 1.
Taylor didn’t know hoxx to realize
on those possibilities.
Tay'or Not the Right Sort of Boss.
Jake Stahl did.
Here is a concrete example. If
John I. Taylor had continued to
boss the Red Sox they would have
had a new shortstop. Heine Wag
ner didn't make a hit with Taylor.
Thor*' was a time xvhen he could
have been traded for and the Bos
ton club would not have demanded
a stai of the first realm either
That was befoii Jalil Stahl took
charge. The moment lie did Wag
ner was taken from tile market.
He couldn't bi secured by trade.
Xml Wagner lias shown that
Stahl had tlie right hunch. Now.
baseball men will tell you that a
team minus a star in the neigh
borhood of second and short has
no chance for the pennant. You
can accept or reject the theory.
But the fact remains tiiat Wagner
has played wonderful baseball un
der Staid, and if tiie latter became
confidential lie probably would in
form you that lie couldn't have
landed that pennant with a new
man at the shortstop position
t 'redit that to Stahl.
Stahl Fills Vacancy.
Then Stahl personally filled one
of the largest vacancies on the Red
Sox line-up. If there was one thing
that tlie Boston lads of last year
needed it w as a first baseman
Stahl right at tht outset con
vinced tlie players that he was the
manager. John 1. Taylor might own
considerable stock in Hie team, but
Jake Stahl was the manager James
McAleer veteran manag. > anil now
president of the team might sit
back and t 11 what lie had done,
but St ihl was tin man who was
giving the orders these da.xs So
tin players eamt to realize that
Stahl was not only the manager,
but he also was the boss, and that
the felloxx who pleased Stahl was
the follow who was going to get
Hie credit
from that moment the Red S<>x
• began to get rt »ults it wa- ... if ~
new spirit had entered the team.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1912.
How Red Sox and Giants Compare
AB R. BH. TB. 28. 38. HR. AV. PO. A. E. AV. SH. SB.
Red Sox 4500 670 1248 1710 237 75 25 .278 3551 1685 234 .957 173 163
Giants... 4527 765 1265 1770 211 81 44 .279 3626 1694 277 .950 116 263
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UNT ()W that the Giants and Red Sox arc .stire to meet in
u \| the world's series,” said Rube Mai-quard the other
da,\. I may have the pleasure of hooking up with
an old friend of my minor league dtiys—-‘Smoky Joe’ Wood.
"When I was with Indianapolis, in the American Asso
ciation. Joe was with the Kansas City Bines tn the same
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Southpaw Collins Is a Past Master of Left Hand Pitching Control
Boston Red Sox’s Only Port Sider Will Stand Off Rube Marquard
44 A Y COLLINS hasn't a
thing, yet he is one of
the best pitchers in the
American league—one of the two
or three best left-handed pitchers
in the business," said Clark Grif
fith, manager of the Washington
team, the other day.
This was an accurate and. when
you come to think of it. a remark
able tribute to the man who wflf
probably be Joe Wood's right-hand
—or, better, left-handed—twlrler
in the coming series for the world's j
championship.
The fact is that Collins, who is
second best of the Sox pitchers,
"has nothing" that pitchers are
usually gauged by—that is. he has
no sharp or intricate and puzzling
curve ball, no great speed, no re
markable change of pace and no
particularly bothersome slow ball.
Yet. next to Wood. Collins is the
most successful pitcher in the Red
Sox camp.
What is the answer?
Control.
Has Remarkable Control.
Collins is a better master of
where his delivery goes than any
other man on the Red Sox staff
better than most other pitchers on
anx team, and lie lias better con
trol than anx other left-hander in
the game.
lie h.js won 16 of 22 games he has
been credited with pitching this
'car. and has taken 1.1 of the last
IS games hi has pitched He had a
poor start, owing to an absciss on
.. km • . but alter hi had worked
into form, following the first game
Ray Collins Will Pitch Second Game
Although Joe Wood j s considered the Boston Red Sox's
best hurler, Kay ( ollins. the great southpaw, runs him ;i dose
second. And it would not be surprising if the left hander did
every bit as well as "Smoky Joe in the world's series against
the Giants. It is the plan of Manager Jake Stahl to pitch Col
lins in the second game of the title series. Wood, of course, be
ng slated to hiyl the opening performance.
of the first Red Sox series of the
season at Chicago, he became near
ly invincible. Lately he has pitched
shut-out, or nearly shut-out, ball
to most of his opponents.
If he holds to his present form,
he Is expected to alternate with Joe
Wood in the series w ith the Giants.
How He Does It,
Without anything”—as Clark
Griffith, the "Old Fox,” put it—Col
lins has been fooling the best bats
men of the American league right
along for weeks Experts like
Christy Mathewson say he is one
of the most successful left-handers
in baseball.
Going back to this matter of con
trol. Collins has issued less bases
on balls per batsman than an.x
other left-handed pitcher this year
—in tact, less than most right
handers He went through three
straight games without passing a
man or hitting one.
H seems able to place the ball
wlicrtxit lie pleases, measuring tin |
league, and m;rny a time we had a royal battle. Joe always
had a wonderful lot of speed, and I had a bit of the same
thing then. \\ e d just ent loose with plain smoke ami would
wind up every gaute we fought with ten or twelve strikeouts
apiece.
"I don l believe Joe ever beat me.’’
Spot to a hair's breadth, and since
he knows the opposing batsmen of
the American league he has fooled
them all.
Collins uses a long, accurate!'
measured curve most of the time,
but frequently employs a straight,
fast one. which 1 s not nearly so
speedy as Joe Wood's, but which
seems to be successful, considering
the numbet of strike-outs. Math
ewson thinks that ho has the bats
men batting with his arm.” tn
other words, they follow Collins'
motion before delivery, and thus
lose the ability to hit the ball or to
place their tilts when they do lo
cate the sphere.
Plays a Cautious Game.
Collins began to reach his best
form l ite last -umm i It Is told of
him that while he was pitching
rather ordinary baseball for a big
leaguer, in lull, he complained that
he was not permitted to work as h.
pleased John 1 Tailor, then pres
idem and owner of the Red Sox.
'ailed In t'ollins on July 4, 1911.
and talked that oxer with him
After he heard what i ollin- had to
■-.i' In' i emarked
| 'Well, I hate tht utmost conti-
GEORGIAN SPORTS
Written by Experts
dence in you, Collins. I think that
you have the 'stuff' ami that you
have tlie brains. Go ahead and
pitch your own way. and I'm with
you.”
t'oilins follow cd the advice. He
“made good” immediately Ho was
so good, in fact, that R esident Mc-
Aleer and Jake Stahl kept him this
year as the team's only left-hander,
ami without any expressed doubt
that he would "deliver tin goods. '
After he hod thoroughly i-einvered
from ills illness and regained his
strength. Collins became extraordi
narily successful, wheteby he be
came the Sox's second pitcher, in
the opinion of the R f . ( i s ox | l(
snould more than off "Rube"
Marquard. the Giants' remarkable
left-hander.
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GIANTS’ ROOTEBS
FEAR BRSTON'S
" OUTFIELD
H ER E'S a Story by a Boston
acr.be who has traveled w , th
the Boston team all season
but who is now with the New Y. l
Giants for the remainder o f J
season to get a line on the M?
Graw clan. In thi, story, aft '
having watched ths Giants' out
field m action, he states that the
New York trio does not C om D J
with the Hub outfit
By Paul H. Shannon.
NEW YORK, Sept, in—\v
New York fans are rax ,
over the work. of Giant |« ff
resreau. and banking miN't.’x
the ability of Doyle and chief »
ers to see the Giants through, thj
enthusiasm dies quickly away
rhJ x<°'^ e tO '■° nsifier tl'e outfirs
that McGraw will be forced m d
pend upon in the coming . pptest Z
a world’s championship
Even the prejudiced Polo groun ,
contingent-a following which can
see no pitcher but "Mattv"_ no
leader but McGraw and no team
but the National league champions
are forced to admit that «« f ar
as the outfields are conie ned th.
Red Sox are unquestionably
stronger.
As far as fielding goes, compari.
sops are odious, for New Yorkes
The strongest factor in the Giants'
outer garden is "Red” Murray who
bears the unenviable reputation f
failing to make a single <af. hit in
th? world's series last fall.
Murray is far and a wax the best
outfielder that the Giants can sn„«
But can any one think of compar
ing him with Speaker'.'
What Figures Show.
Murray is hitting the b i
well just now. His average i- lust
.270 for 124 games. In i:;t U1 nt .«
Speaker's average is .392 oni.x j
difference of 120 points. Murray has
made 132 base hits, with a total i
of 199. Speaker has hit s-.f .x
times, with a total ~f j;,;;
Comparison along this line is pa
thetic. therefore. Murray is sec
ond in the list of Giant base run
ners. He has stolon 30. Speaker
has pilfered no less than IT quite
a decided difference, and sinr.il
118 runs to Murray's 75.
But if Speaker is so far ,\| ui c s
superior as a hitter, wiiat I'liarr.e
has the New Yorker in th" ti-
Speaker is considered by must ivit
ies to be the greatest outfielder in
the country, an unerring judge »f a
fly ball a fielder without .i smg'e
weakness. While Muri.ix n' ti-
ers iots of ground and is fast on
hig feet, he lacks the Texan s won
derful ability to time a long diin. j
Resides, Murray lias one fatal ]
wi akness.
Next tn Murray in point of as
around strength ranks l-'re,; Sii'id
gtass, at present covering cent-r
Hi Id. although lie max ultimately !
be shifted to left, while Recker ’
brought into tile line-up and plai'id
at center.
The logical man to compare x'itii
him in tile Ruston line-up would
be Duffy Lewis, and holt again th
Giants sadly suffer by the i.ontrast.
As far as speed is ( on.'erni'd,
Snodgrass has it al! nvir la' -
He is tine of the fast' st tin n
the New York team, w liile I.i'i"’
could be a w hole lot spe< die" ’
out being rated as a flier. 'O l '
grass has scored S 9 rims for fl>f
Giants and pilfered 33 bases.
is has registered but 7" runs and
has stolen but five sacks.
Snodgrass Better Batter.
The superiority of the N-tv '
man rests right here, how-ver.
Lewis lias a batting average
.278. Or 12 points more than the
Giant. Resides, lie hits hi
elean-up position for tlie Red
and ii goes without saying that
has hit in a very appreciable em
ber more runs. And in tlm '’tit
field well. Snodgrass sl'ir.' ' '
when coming in for a tly hair
i.- very fast and his speed
one department appar'-nt'.'
nishes his sole excuse tor I
big leugui’r outfielder.
And as for Hooper w
SO far ahead of either Dex or- ■
Bo< ker that it is a waste "f sf r
to make a comparison.
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