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Flag-Winning Array of Players Must Be “Club”
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No jealousies of Diamond Stars Must Exist
By John (“Chief”) Meyers
(Giants' Great Catcher.)
/-r>HE lighting out of a world's
I championship battle between
two baseball teams that have
outclassed the competitors in their
respective leagues no doubt brings
up to the minds of the enthusiastic
followers of the game—it certainly
does to the members of the teams —
the question:
"What makes a winning ball
club?”
T will try to answer that ques
tion as best I can.
In the first place, I believe that
the most Important thing of all is
that the members of the athletic
aggregation which is to represent a
city must be a "club” and a “team."
As a "club” they must be all
friends, all good fellow’s together.
They must have pride in their or
ganization. There must be no jeal
ousies, no dissensions. Every man
should regard, every other than —
whether he is a regular or a sub
stitute —as his pal, as a man he’d
stick to through thick or thin.
I am mighty glad to say that the
New York National league club
men fe.e! just that way. We all
have on du visiting cards, after
our names, the words, "New York
Giants,” and. believe me, I don’t
mind saying that every one of us
feels a little swelling of the chest
when he hands one of those cards
out.
‘‘.Giants” Means Guarantee.
The words "New York Giants”
mean not only that we’re members
of a baseball organization that’s
the best in the country, but they’re
a guarantee that each of us is a
regula ’ man —or else'we wouldn’t
be able to sport.
As a ’,’<?lub" we’re proud to be
long to the Giants as a society man
In New York is to say that he’s a
member of the Union, or Knicker
bocker. pr the Brook. We share
our troubles arid joys together, and
like it.
That, pe haps, is the first requi
site of a pennant-winning organi
zation —being a "club.”
Being a "team" is another mat
ter.
Did you ever watch a skillful
boxer at work? His eyes work,
first of all, watching the moves of
his adversary. With them, his arms
work to find a vital point where he
can deliver his blow or ward off
his enemy's blow. His legs carry
him forward into an aggressive at
titude. or backward into a defen
sive attitude.
Over all these his mind works,
controlling each.
Well, a successful baseball nine
mfist be just like that—just like a
fighter. His physical parts are. In
an individual way, a "team." They
work together, instantly, without
waiting to eize up a situation.
They know, as soon as the situa
tion arise.-, 'hat they have to do.
arid they do t ’‘inctively. So
does the winning •’ of a ball
nine. And so does each p'...; on
that nine.
Makes Great Play Instinctively.
Here is a little instance which
happened only a few days ago: A
hard hit ball was slammed at Bar
ry Doyle, who was playing a trifle
deep beyond second base. He got
It. miraculously almost, w’ith one
hand. There was a runner coming
down from first who had started
with the crack of the bat. Larry
had no chance, he knew instinc
tively. to throw to the bag, be
cause the play bad been so swift.
So he. made a backward dive with
the ball in his hand, trusting to
his sense of location to hit the can
vas before the runner did. Larry
made it.
That was only an individual
play, of course; but it showed how
toe "team instinct" runs. He knew
that his mates coulo.i’t cover the
bag quickly enough to take his
throw. They knew’ it, too. and
didn't try. They relied upon him—■
in fact, they knew exactly what he
would try to do And, wonderful
as the play looked, It was expected
all around our infield.
If a ball is hit so that Merkle
has to go out of his territory to
cover it and leave the first bag un
protected, the pitcher—no matter
who he is—is over on first like a
flash. He knows instinctively—just
how is hard to tell—that he is
needed. And he's there.
You may think: "That's simple—
THE BASEBALL CARD. ’
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
New York in Boston.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. PC , W. L. P.C
Boston .98 44 .690 ) T'etroit .88 76 472
Wash. . .87 58 .600 I C'land. .68 76 .472
Phila. . 85 59 .590 ! N. York. 48 93 .340
Chicago .70 72 .493 S. Louis 48 94 338
Yesterday's Results.
Only one game scheduled.
No games scheduled
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
St. Louis in Brooklyn.
Pittsburg in New York.
Chicago In Philadelphia.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L PC I W. L. P.O
N. York 97 45 .683 I Phila. .67 74 475
Chicago 87 54 .617 I S. Louis 59 85 410
P'burg. .87 56 .608 I Br'klvp 53 88 376
C’natl. 73 71 507 I Boston 47 97 326
Yesterday’s Results.
Brooklyn 7. St. Louis 2.
Boston 7. Cincinnati 6
Other games postponed; rain.
□ ELANEY BEATS PICATO.
t'IjfcVELANP. <*HIO. Sept 24 After
twelve hard, last rounds, t'al Delanev.
of I'levelaml, last night was awarded the
decision over "Babe ' Picato, of Los An
geles
that's the first principle of base
ball." Well, in away, it is. But
the winning club does it. and the
losing club does not; and that’s the
difference.
Must Be Good Friends.
The winning club is a machine
whose parts are, first of all. good
friends, and next are units which
work together swiftly without con
sidering that they are working to
gether.
You’ve got to have both the
"club' and the "team” spirit in a
successful basebail organization. T
hope I have made clear just what
each spirit is.
A ball is hit. Every man knows
from the very instant it leaves the
bat where it is going and just what
he should do. The play is carried
out. The runner is disposed of.
Thire is a comment that the spec
tators don’t hear: ’Good boy. Mat
ty:" "Nice work there. Fred;” "All
MAROUARD'S DECLINE
WORRIESGOTHAM FANS
By Sam Crane.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Rube
Marquard will have to take a
big brace if he is to be of any
service to the Giants in the com
ing world’s series. When the Reu
ben began to hit the slide, after
the t'ubs stopped his famous win
ning streak back in July, it was
only natural that he should show
some, effect of the strain he had
been under while compiling the
record. But he has had sufficient
time to recover, and his lack of
form is causing the Giants’ follow
ers no little uneasiness regarding
the outcome of the big series.
< if course, Tesreau is counted on
as the real hope when the Giants
and the Red Sox clash, and Matty,
too, is expected to do his share, but
the services of the big southpaw
are needed to battle against the
array of formidable twirlers the ’
Red Sox boast. Just what ails
Marquard is a mystery. Apparent
ly he is suffering from the jinks
that has camped on the trail of
every pitcher who ran up a string
of victories this season, and there
have been an unusually large num
ber.
Johnson and Dubuc have both
suffered a like fate. Johnson is
having a hard time winning since
the Browns tripped him up on his
sixteenth consecutive win, and Du-
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1912.
right, Chief.”
The question of batting and
pitching as the means of making a
w inning club will naturally arise in
the fan's mind. That leads to
arguments which would take up
columns of space. I will not enter
into such arguments.
Being a hitter and not a pitcher,
I think that for my own part I
would rather have a ball club of
good, free-swinging, hard-hitting
fellows which would roll up a lot
of runs than a team which had
two or three cracking good pitch
ers who could hold the other fel
lows down to a very few runs.
Runs, after all, are what count
in the game, you know. With my
club sending over six or eight or
more in a game, I think I’d rather
trust to a middle-class pitcher—
and good fielding—to keep the
other fellows from scoring so
many.
buc, who was an enigma to every
team in the Johnson circuit while
tunning up a string of eleven tri
umphs, is meeting with reverses as
frequent and numerous as were his
victories a month ago. This also
seems to be the fate of Marquard.
McGraw thinks the tall south
paw will have recovered his prow
ess in a few weeks and Coach Rob
inson, who deserves no little credit
for putting Rube on the toad to
fame, holds the same opinion. Still
they are at loss to explain his long
lapse from form.
In his last seven starts Mar
quard was taken out of the box five
times, which is not a record that
would tend to imbue his followers
with confidence regarding what
might happen if he faced the hard
hitting Boston team.
LARRY GARDNER WILL BE
O.K. FOR WORLD’S SERIES
BOSTON, Sept. 24.—Officials of the
Boston American league club were re
lieved today to learn from Detroit that
Larry Gardner, the Red Sox third base
man, who was hurt there Saturday, is
not as seriously injured as at first re
ported.
Instead of being broken, his injured
finger has suffered only a dislocation.
He will be able to play in the world's
series
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WHENM GDDRTY
STOPSJITON
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Eddie
McGoorty, of Oshkosh, is
sued today formal claim to
the middleweight championship as
the result of his victory over Jack
Harrison, middleweight champion
of England, by the knockout route
at Madison Square Garden last
night.
This was the premier appear
ance in this country of Harrison,
who is the holder of the Lonsdale
belt. It required 2 minutes and
54 seconds for the Western fighter
to turn the trick with a hook to
the jaw.
Among the spectators were a
number of fashionably dressed
women who applauded each knock
down with great enthusiasm.
Recently McGoorty knocked out
Dave Smith, middleweight cham
pion of Australia.
In the second main bout Mike
• Gibbons, the welterweight cham
pion, beat Tommy Maloney easily
on pointe.
McGoorty opened up with a right
and left to the face, then stag
gered the Englishman with a left
hook on the jaw. Keeping his man
continually on the defensive, he
sent right and left blows to the
head and. after a smashing right to
the face and a right uppercut under
the chin, he hooked Harrison's jaw
with his left, sending him down for
a count of nine.
The Englishman got up groggy,
and McGoorty, after landing three
rights and three lefts on the head,
with another left hook put him
down again for the count of nine.
The same blow’ a few seconds later
sent Harrison to the floor for the
third time, when he was counted
out.
The Big Race
Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on
how the "Big Five” batters of the
American league are hitting;
PLAYERS— A. B. H. P. C.
COBB 527 215 .408
SPEAKER 538 210 .390
JACKSON 536 205 .382
LAJOIE 404 140 .347
COLLINS 498 168 .337
No games were scheduled in the
American league yesterday.
National League Wants to Dethrone Its President
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Tom Lynch Is Made a “Goat” by Owners of Clubs
By W. J. Mcßeth.
THERE is room for doubt as
to whether the world's
championship series is a
good thing for the game. Base
ball is public confidence—no more,
no less. It is what the public has
made it.
Intricate organization to the con
trary notwithstanding, its life is
hanging by the thread of public
approval. It has taken years and
years of encouragement, whole
souled purpose and struggle to
place the nation’s summer pastime
upon its present exalted pedestal.
And yet one wave of doubt would
sweep away the apparent firm
foundation like chaff before a gale.
Baseball is an institution. It is
a genuine, blue-blooded, clean and
invigorating sport. Firmly estab
lished, it will endure as long as the
American race. It will endure—
DEPEND ON GRIFF AND
MACK TO TRAIN BOSTON
Boston, sept. 24.—Jim mc-
Aleer. president and part
owner of the Boston Red
Sox and father of the All-Star se
ries project, the move that put the
Athletics on edge to defeat the
Chicago Cubs In 1910 and the New
York Giants in 1911, says that it
is up to the Red Sox brother clubs
to put them right for the forthcom
ing clash with the Giants.
McAleer hopes and believes that
each and every club will put forth
its best efforts to help condition
the Red Sox for the tight, victory
in which means continued prestige
for the American league.
He says every manager owes it
to himself, the Red Sox and the
league to send his very best line
up, including his strongest pitch
ing. against the Boston Speed
Boys, especially in the last half
dozen games of the season.
The Red Sox still have a dozen
games to play, with one more
Yankee game they can play if they
care to do so.
In the final two series of the
season, three games at Washing
ton, September 28 and 30 and Oc
tober I, and three games at Phila
delphia. October 3. 4 and 5, .Man
ager Stahl’s boys want Connie
Mack and Clark Griffith to dish up
their very best opposition.
They ask nothing more than to
but maybe not in the professional
sense. That remains with the
powers which control the profes
sion. Here we are several weeks
away from the classic close of the
season and already there has arisen
a stench of scandal.
Charles Webb Murphy, president
of the Chicago Cubs, appears to be
a hard loser. He has questioned
the integrity of the game from
which he ran a shoestring into mil
lions of dollars. He charges whole
sale collusion among the clubs of
the National league—a conspiracy
to discriminate against Chicago in
favor of the champion Giants. Few
among his associates have escaped
the vituperous tongue of the chesty
little Windy City magnate. He
has even assailed the honor of
Thomas J. Lynch, the man that he
himself advanced in compromise as
president of the National league.
Had Murphy’s ravings stopped
be pitted against Walter Johnson.
Bobby Groom and Tom Hughes in
Washington and Jack Coombs.
Chief Bender and Eddie Plank in
Philadelphia.
Inasmuch as McAleer’s All-Stars
of 1910 and 1911 did much to prime
the Athletics for their settoes
which resulted in such glorious
triumphs, it is up to Connie Mack
and his players to pay off part of
the debt by reciprocating in like
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People have become used to Mur
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ear and out the other. But, like
the winnings of a whipped cur, his
yelps got onto the nerves of his
associates. Bickerings back and
forth aroused the latent petty jeal
ousies and hatreds of former days.
The whole National league was
taken by the ears until now’ no one
knows kin or foe. But Murphy es
capes it all. Tom Lynch is th*
“goat."
The National league Is after
Lynch’s scalp, according to the
best informed authorities. Each
of the several club owners has
picked his candidate for the berth.
The present executive’s strength
lies in the dissension that divides
his house. It will take a majori
ty vote to unseat him. and by the
present signs and tokens the old
major body will never be able to
get together to frame a majority
vote for twenty years. Tn such
case, Lynch would do well to stick
around just for spite. He is tired
’of the job and he doesn’t need tha
pin money the National league
pays its president. If Lynch steps
down and out, it wiil be the Na
tional league’s loss.
Be that as it may, the house
cleaning should start nearer the
ground floor. Charles Webb Mur
phy has proved himself no fit per
son to be connected with the pro
motion of baseball, if half the sto
ries told of him are true, or if half
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