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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 the American
league rules Boston can refuse to play its postponed game with New
York, its, series In New York with that club being closed.
GIANTS’ HURLERS
WILL GIVE SOK
RDUGHTIME
By W. S. Farnsworth.
BOSTON admirers are backing
the Red Sox in the world’s
aeries chiefly because they
believe the pitching staff, composed
of Wood, Collins, O’Brien, Bedient
and Hall, will prove too much for
Mathewaon, Marquard and Tes- #
reau But will ft?
In a seven -game series three
pitchers, if they are in condition,
can easily carry the burden. So
let us else up, from a Giant view
point, Juat how New York’s Big
Three may accomplish all that will
be necessary to bring a world’s title
back to the National league.
• • •
MATHEWSON has never failed
to deliver In the pinches. True
he was beaten by the Boston cluh
In the inter-oity series in 1908. But
he was far from being right then.
He had been ill in all the late sea
son games and he played In that
series against the Red Sox purely
on his nerve.
That series gave Matty a line
on the Boston hitters. He knows
some of the weaknesses of that
club and it will not be like work
ing against absolute strangers.
The big fellow's arm is 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 matter if he
loses all the games he hurls until
the National league season winds
up
Just take it from me, Mathew
son will give the Boston sluggers
an awful run for their money.
With him working It is then that
the Giants will be the best bet.
• • •
'T'HE fact that Tesreau has been
x beating the Cubs with regu
larity of late before capacity houses
proves that this young man doesn't
“go up” with stage fright. Crowds
of 30,900 have failed to shake him
twice this fall
Speaker and Gardner are the only
left-hand hitters on the Boston
team. Now, Tesreau has a swell
fast ball, besides his spltter, and he
is likely to keep his "smoker” so
close to the ears of the Hubbites
that they will have an awful time
connecting. For Speaker and Gard
ner he will have to rely more on
his spttter.
• • •
JUST because Marquard is not
holding down the opposition of
late to a handful of scattering hits
like he did early In the summer
does not mean anything. Reports
from New York have it that Mc-
Graw is holding him back so as to
have him prime October 8. The
Giants’ manager has yelled his
very head off at times of late when
the Rube started to turn 'em loose.
It is against Speaker and Gard
ner that Marquard is likely to show
his best brand of hurling. Speaker
claims he can hit a southpaw as
easily as a right-hander, but 1
watched him closely last season
and know that he can not. And
Gardner has always been pie for
portside slants.
• • •
TN a long series Boston would
have much the best of the
pitching argument, but in a series
where the best four out of seven
will win the championship, I don’t
see where the Giants' staff will be
forced to take off their hats.
• * *
PERSONALLY I think that Bos
ton is a better balanced, faster
all-around machine than New York,
and all things being equal should
be the legitimate heir of the Ath
letics’ proud title.
In only one essential do I con
cede New York better equipped
leadership.
It is Impossible for the most de
vout followers of Jake Stahl to
compare him as a tactician with
Muggsy McGraw.
• • «
'T'HE fact that tile Red Sox ran
first to the Athletics in this
year’s race with considerable ease
and that the clan of Connie Mack
left their well known scars upon the
Glnnts In the last championship
tontlhi har had much to do with
making of Boston .. favorit<
w *
TO JAMUL
GOES CREDIT OF
WINNER
By Bill Bailey.
JAKE STAHL today is a com
manding figure in baseball, for
the reason that he is—Jake
Stahl.
You may say that the Red Sox
will represent the American league
in the world’s championship series
because they were lucky. Os course,
they were lucky. No team ever
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 luck would return them pen
nant winners.
Let’s make the case one of Jake
Stahl vs. luck.
Mell start in by pointing out
what luck did. The biggest piece
of luck was the fact that they went
through the American league sched
ule with scarcely an injury and
with but mighty few men out of
the line-up. Heine Wagner was
injured for a short time and was
out of the game. That’s luck. It’s
admitted.
Stahl Baca of Whole Works.
But where else did the Red Sox
have luck?
In the pitching of Joe Wood, say
you? Remember that Joe Wood
did not come to the Red Sox this
year. He has been with that Bos
ton bunch ever since 1908.
In the great playing of Tris
Speaker? Tris Speaker has been
with the Red Sox for lo these many
years. 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 Stahl took charge of the
Red Sox at the right moment.
There had been too much John I.
Taylor. Now, the fellow who was
formerly the sole owner of the Bos
ton team may be one of the grand
est fellows that ever lived, but he
didn’t know’ how to manage a ball
club.
He had a ball club that possessed
wonderful capabilities. But John 1.
Taylor didn't know how to realize
on those possibilities.
Taylor 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.
There was a time when he could
have been traded for and the Bos
ton club would not have demanded
a star of the first realm either.
That was before Jahl Stahl took
charge. The moment he did Wag
ner w’as taken from the market.
He couldn’t be secured by trade.
And Wagner has shown that
Stahl had the 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 that Wagner
has played wonderful baseball un
der Stahl, and if the latter became
confidential he probably would in
form you that he couldn’t have
landed that pennant with a new
man at the shortstop position.
Credit 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 the Boston lads of last year
needed it was a first baseman.
Stahl right at the outset con
vinced the players that he was the
manager. John I. Taylor might own
considerable stock In the team, but
Jake Stahl was the manager. James
McAleer veteran manager and now
president of the team, might sit
back and tell what he had done,
but St ihl was the man who was
giving tin- orders these days. So
the players came to realize that
Stahl w.c not only the inan:i<er,
but he also was the boss, ami that
I the fellow who pleased Stahl Win
the fellow who was going to gel
tin- credit.
I'lom that moment the Red Hog
begun to get lesults. It was Ma If a
new gpnit li<ml 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.. 450 G 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
Joe Wood and Rube Marquard, the Two Great
Hurling Rivals; Their Famous Twirling Hands
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JOE WOOD.
d Giants anil Red Sox tire sure to meet in
£\| the world’s series,” said Rube Marquard the other
'Li.'- I may have the pleasure of hooking up with
an old friend of my minor league days—‘Smoky Joe’ Wood.
‘‘When I was with Indianapolis, in the American Asso
ciation, Joe was with the Kansas City Blues in the same
Southpaw Collins Is a Past Master of Left Hand Pitching Control
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Boston Red Sox’s Only Port Sider Will Stand Off Rube Marquard
4(Q AY 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 will
probably be Joe W ood's right-hand
—or, better, left-handed—twirier
in the coming series for the world's
championship.
Tlie 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
any teiun, and he bus better con
trol than any other left-handi r in
the game.
He has won I# of 22 games h> lias
lu ell credited with pitching tills
yenr, and has taken 15 of the last
18 giinii'S h< lism pitched. He had a
poor stmt, owing to an abscess on
a knee, but after he had worked
into form, following th, n r , ( g un te
WOOD'S PITCHING HAND.
Ray Collins Will Pitch Second Game
Although Joe Wood is considered the Boston Red Sox’s
best hiirler. Ray Collins, the great southpaw, runs him a close
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
ing slated to hurl 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 tlie series with 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 Ymerlean league right
along for weeks Experts like
Christy Mathewson say he is one
of the most successful left-handers
in baseball.
Going back to tills matter of con
trol. Collins has Issued less bases
on balls per batsman than any
other left-handed pitcher this year
In fuel, lews than most right
handers. He went through three
stialght games without passing g
inuii or hitting on. ,
H. seeing able to pla<. the ball
wherever lie pleases, measuring the
league, and many a time we had a royal battle. Joe always
had a wonderful lot of speed, and 1 had a bit of the same
thing then. We d just cut loose with plain smoke and would
wind up every game we fought with ten or twelve strikeouts
apiece.
‘‘l don’t believe Joe ever beat ine.”
spot to a hair’s breadth, and since
he know’s the opposing batsmen of
the American league he has fooled
them all.
Collins uses a long, accurately
measured curve most of the time,
but frequently employs a straight,
fast one, which i s not nearly so
speedy as Joe Wood's, but which
seems to be successful, considering
the number of strike-outs. Math
ewson thinks that he has the bats
men batting "with his arm." In
other words, they follow t'ollins'
motion before delivery, and thus
lose the ability to hit tlie ball or to
place their hits when they do lo
cate tin sphere.
Plays a Cautious Game.
t’ollins begun to reach Ills best
form late last summer, it Is told of
him that while he was pitching
rather otdlnary baseball for a big
■ iguer, in inn, i... . ~,, t ;n , t n., (
he was not permitted to work as he
pleased John I Taylor, then pres
ident and owner of tile Red Sox,
called 111 t’ollins on July 4, 1911.
and talked that over with' him
After he heard wliat Collins hud to
say, he remarked:
"Well, 1 have the utmost Conti-
GEORGIAN SPORTS
Written by Experts
RUBE MARQUARD.
deuce in you, Collins. 1 think that
v&u have the ’stuff' and that you
have the brains. Go ahead and
pitch your own way, and I’m with
you.”
t’ollins followed the advice. He
“made good" immediately. Ho was
SO good, in fact, that President Mc-
Aleer and Jake Stahl kept him this
year as the team's only left-hander
and without any expressed doubt
that he would "deliver tlie goods."
After he had thoroughly recovered
front his illness and regained his
strength, Collins became extraordi
narily successful, whereby he be
came the Sox's second pitcher, in
tlie opinion of the Red Sox he
should more than stand off "Rube"
Marquard. the Giants' remarkable
left-hander.
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GIANTS' ROOTERS
FEAR BOSTON'S
OUTFIELD
HERE IS a story by a Boston
senbe who has traveled Wlth
the Boston team all seaSorli
but who is now with the New York
Giants for the remainder of th.
season to get a line on the Me
Graw clan. In this story, after
having watched the Giants' out
field in action, he states that the
New York tno does not co mpare
with the Hub outfit P ‘
By Paul H. Shannon
New YORK, Sept. 19._ W ; l#
New York fans are raving
over the work of Giant ,h. ff
Tesreau, and banking mig-htiiv
the ability of Doyle and Chi e f i 'L Pn
ers to see the Giants through, ti leir
enthusiasm dies quickly away wht . n
they come to consider the outfi eld
that McGraw will be forced to d,
pend upon in the coming contest f„r
a world’s championship.
I-ven the prejudiced Polo ground
cotldngent-a following which ~u ,
see no pitcher but "Matty”—no
leader but McGraw and no tea,.)
but the National league champiens
—are forced to admit that as f., r ‘
as the outfields are concerned the
Red Sox are unquestionabh th
stronger.
As far as fielding goes, compari
sons are odious, for New Yorkers
The strongest factor in the uian c
outer garden is “Red” Murray, who
bears the unenviable reputation of
tailing to make a single safe hit in
the world’s series last fall.
Murray is far and away the b» -t
outfielder that the Giants can show.
But can any one think of cotnpar
ing him with Speaker?
What Figures Show.
Murray is hitting the ball fairly
well just now. His average is just
.270 for 124 games. In 134 games
Speaker’s average is .392. only a
difference of 120 points. Murray has
made 132 base hits, with a total
of 199. Speaker has hit safely 203
times, with a total of 293 bases.
Comparison along this line is pa
thetie, therefore. Murray is sec
ond in the list of Giant base run
ners. He has stolen 30. Speaker
has pilfered no less than 43, quite
a decided difference, and scored
118 runs to Murray’s 75.
But if Speaker is so far Murray's
superior as a hitter, what chance
has the New Yorker in the field?
Speaker is considered by most crit
ics to be the greatest outfielder in
the country, an unerring judge of a
fly ball—a fielder without a single
weakness. While Murray also cov
ers lots of ground and is fast on
his feet, he lacks the Texan’s won
derful ability to time a long drive.
Besides, Murray has one fatal
weakness.
■ Next to Murray in point of all
around strength ranks Fred Snod
grass, at present covering center
field, although he may ultimately
be shifted to left, while Becker is
brought into the line-up and placed
at center.
The logical man to compare with
him in the Boston line-up would
be Duffy Lewis, and here again the
Giants sadly suffer by the contrast.
As far as"' speed is concerned,,
Snodgrass has it all over Lewis.
He is one of the fastest men 'ti
the New York team, while Lewis
could be a whole tot speedier with
out being rated as a flier. Snod
grass has scored 89 runs for the
Giants and pilfered 33 bases. Lew
is has registered but 70 runs and
has stolen but five sacks.
Snodgrass Better Batter.
The superiority of the New Y’ork
man rests right here, however.
Lewis has a batting average of
.278, or 12 points more than the
Giant. Besides, he hits In the
clean-up position for the Red Sow
and it goes without saying that he
has hit in a very appreciable num
ber more runs. And in the out
field—well. Snodgrass shines onlv
when coming in for a fly ball. B’’
is very fast and his speed in this
one department apparently fur
nishes his sole excuse for being a
big leaguer outfielder.
And as for Hooper—well, he is
so far ahead of either Devore oi
Becker that it is a wane of spm e
<o make a comparison.