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WORLD’S SERIES :: Special Page :: 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 MARQUARD’S PITCHING HAND. ( Okßmcw rtl WP '■ € // Wffq Wl- -i fe" f . ■ . x.. ;. | ‘ a- i IIX/ IBBr •' ->x Cl w y yy ' ' ■ W 7 hsi ---MV 4 tofu.. w a & : . m til’- * K' > ’ r , /y ’.WmWch / A "A. Kfa A ■ ■ \ I—S' IU J * W \ X A/ h\ iIF \f wb. c/ _ wp \x m J 1 i \ ' x /y- xx' y/ fi 11// /ZJv ' I h' xp v J ■■ YA l^ ■■ y r 1 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 J-S-I- +e+ 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. Summer Skin Diseases During the summer most persons are annoyed with pimples, boils, ras ies, or eruptions, while others suffer more severely with lie z« ma. Acne, l etter. Salt Rheum, or some kindred skin disease. A perfect condition of the skin exists as long as the blood is normal, but when it l,e ' comes contaminated with humors and acids its supply of nutritive proper ties is greatly lessened and it becomes a sharp, acrid fluid which diseases e instead of preserving the natural health and texture of the skin. The eruptions may be globed over and inflammation reduced by the appltcat ,oU of washes, cosmetics, salves, etc., but no skin .mo tion can ever be permanently cured in this way. only’ pure blood can make healthy skin. S. S. h cures Skin Diseases of every kind by neutralizing the acids and removing the humors from the bio" S. S. S. builds the circulation up to its norma strength, increases its nutritive powers ami ad'> *•’ its purity in every way. Then the skin instead ol being irritated with acid humors an<l impurities, is nourished and I' | by .1 plentiful supply of rich, pure blood. Book on Sku. Diseases and any THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA. CA. 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.