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Flag-Winning Array of Players Must Be “Club” +•+ *•* *•* +•* +•* *•+ -ba-:- 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- « night I jßHßjomfe/ l° n S it Keeps I him Company I During the tedious, drag ginghoursof the night, many a watchman on his lonesome rounds finds comfort and ■/ - / MBr companionship in a good / Bwy chew. Good company—that’s the I jipF' fact about a good chew! -’.-/' It does somehow keep close to y° u ~brightens up things —helps you to enjoy yourself. But you want the right chew all right. If that old fashioned, dark kind gets to tasting pretty strong, try W DRUMMOND “ L I I CHEWING TOBACCO I M The downright goodness of Drummond you usually take of artificially sweetened to- vvill cheer you up in spite of yourself or vour bacco—tuck it away—and keep tab. surroundings. You’ll find the real tobacco taste in Drummond s the economy chew. Just Drummond—a mild, mellow, nerve-sooth cut off half the size chew of Drummond ingchew. In metal boxes. At your dealer’s. H < X-V _ ■ lUC tr^3=3S s:==ss^ a 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 WOMEN APPLAUD 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 -r*-;- -ba-r -b*-b -b*-b -b*-b 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. 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