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®OMAK grow O«W * OTTOS’ EDITED S FARNSWORTH Yes, Yes, It Was Time for Mutt to Go Home :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher I 1 iDo Y.,» W W "1 z ——- ~~ ""] GEFF/IF A «\AN DofsfQ T I „ - ? I VJH'f THERE’S I DRINK TOC ,iVHF I. TA BLF ovtR THER t . €L U | r ftßL . <RtW T« Ea O - O nln ONF I— , , _. jmjwi -■-. ip y ou «, ftw four. "AtN a.--* •tsfe.. I j w '*•* onux y£*s- ; ~~~» tw— k TtL ■ ««be SW.M, «Sg|hw- 1 « f( common > " .z- | CAN You k Double , THAT'S Th< ■' ft;,:- /suß.t’l j "-SA \ I / HocaE, / I1 4 ®=Wl- pz===r— w/r Aa wWK Wte /L jffSr w» ,-t7\ -miJWi tI- ? 3 Jw«?^Wfeh r V - "■' z Hsr / Japr- i, \■ / ' . 7 dwr . . . - Red Sox 4 to 5 Choice Over Giants in Gotham •{•••!• -i-R-b -!••-'• 4-»+ •!•••'- •>••!• •!•••!• -I**-!- Heavy Betting in New York on World’s Series NEW YORK. Sept 25 Heavy wagering on the result of the coming world's series between the Nev York Giants and the Boston Red Sox has begun in earnest. Thousands of dollars have been posted already, both here and In Boston, not to mention the other major league cities, and the indi cations are that before the teams clash in the first game a. num of enormous proportions will hang in the balance. A canvass of leading bettors at various local spotting re sorts has revealed the indisputable fact lhat the Red Sox are hot fa vorites and that the prevailing odds offered by their supporters are 5 to 4. Men who backed the Giants heavily last year, chiefly because the strength and skill of the Ath letics were unde: -estimated, can not figure McGraw's men In any way this time Well known brokers and business men who make a practice of betting on sporting events show memoranda covering Yale Gridiron Warriors Battle Wesleyan at New Haven fOOTBALL SEASON WILL OPEN IN EAST TODAY By Monty. NEW YORK, Sept. 86—What will the football season that opens today bring forth? That Is the question of paramount importance tn the mind of every football follower. What changes will the new rules work in the style of game played, and which will ba the champion team when the curtain rings down on the year's pastime? Time will tall But there have been reams writ ten already, variant opinions being advanced, and each follow is entl tied to his own say until it shall have been proved that he is wrong On almost every hand there seems to be a feeling that the now rules put a premium on the heavy man as contrasted with the lighter, faster player. That may be true, but a careful consideration of the changes shows that this is not nec essarily to be so Giving a team four downs to gain ten yards is not as much in favor of the heavy, line-bucking team as the three downs for five yards In vogue up to 1905, as simple mathematics show. One will recall that even then the end-running and brush tackle plays were used with equal effec tiveness. Since the man running with the ball can neither be push ed nor pulled by his mates, line plunging should practically be no more advisable than last tear, when the average distance gained on this style of play was less than two yards, and vert often was nothing at all More Chance For Trick Plays. The giving of four downs to a team makes it more conservative to take chances on trit k plays—for ward passes, criss-crosses, fake kicks, delayed passes split forma tions. et< . - because there is one more opportunity than before to "get away with it." and it is gen erally the ease that u successful trick play will put the runner clear of the opposing first line of de fense. so that he can run at least the full ten yards and very often ten more—sometime- to a touch down That is the main thing we see in the new rules The allowing of the forward pass near at and at the opposing goal which will keep the secondary di lon-a b o-k, will enable the attack ing side to pierce the first line more k "'un Hccordin-ly make more " t " u ‘ ■ •'I - And a touchdown Counts. ,ix points now, as much as 4 strings of bets on the Red Sox as long as your aim. In each case those who backed the Giants se cured 5 to 4 or HI to 8. with a littJe 1(1 to 7 now and then. Odds May Lengthen. ITomin» tit layers of odds, book makers on the race Hacks in for mer years, have also made the Red Sox odds on favorites. A week ago these gamblers were laying 4 to 5 against the. Boston champions, but they got such a big play yesterday it was said that 7 to 10 would be on tap this week and pet haps 3 to 5; in fact, big speculators claim that it would not be surprising if they quoted 1 to 2 against the Red Sox by the time the series begins. This summary of the betting sit uation doesn't mean that the Giants lack financial support. A Cleve land man who has money invested in a big race track has already wagered $30,000 on McGraw's pen nant winners, and it is said that he will bet as much more if the odds are lengthened. A well known two field goals. The shortening of the field by ten yards also will tend to increase scoring. Such tallies as 25 to 20, with evenly matched teams both scoring heav ily, may be looked for in many in stances. Tlie kick-off mark being moved back to the 40-yard line, in stead of the mid-field, equalizes tilings in that respect. The new code, everything considered, is vast ly superior to the old, In our opin ion. - Looks Like an Even Thing. As to the championship—mean ing. as is generally understood, the championship of the East—it looks pretty even between Yale. Harvard and Princeton, with the Tigers pos sessing the edge in only one part of the teain have they suffered- the line —and there are plenty of new men available who should fill tn more than acceptably. The entire left side of the line —Sam White at end. Captain Etldte Hart at tackle, and (Jordon Duff at guard— is missing, as also is Wilson, the right guard We took a little Jaunt over to the Jersey town the other day and saw Coach Cunningham put his men through their paces, and the leftovers from last year’s scrub and the sophomore candidates for the line looked all to the merry Bluethenthal Tigers’ Best. Bluethenthal, at center, will prove the bulwark of the Tiger line, and bls prowess should Imbue his side kicks with the real kind of Prince ton fight that enabled the team to triumph over odds last year Cap tain Talbot Pendleton lias the vet erans Dewitt. Baker and Dunlap, in addition to newcomers, to reinforce his speed in the back field. Prince ton seems destined to have a well balanced team If early appearances count. Yale has lost severely by gradu tlion. With the wonderful tackles. Si ally and Paul. gone, as well sys Captain, now Coach Howe, missing from quarterback, there seems to be tough sledding ahead, in so far as non-regulars will have to be used In these places where Yale was strongest last year Ketcham, the venter, is back, as is also Bo meisler. the star end. anti Captain Spaldin. .1. an Philbin and Walter Camp tn the back field, with Gal lnut r a capable sub-tackle, to help These men will have to form the nucleus for the Ells. Tin Harvard team again is to be THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. actor is said to have expressed a desire to bet $60,000 on the Bos torts. but nobody seems to know whether the offer will be coveted or not The “wise money,” how ever, will go on the Boston end and there'll be an unlimitca amount of il. Giants' Slump the Cause. The reason advanced for the strong support accorded to the Red Sox is that the Giants are not piaytng championship ball and have not been able entirely to recover from the slump of last July; also that in the opinion of some of the best posted baseball players and managers the Red Sox are stronger as a whole than the Athletics of lasi ve.tn As usual, John J./ McGraw isn’t talking for publication, but he is quietly preparing the Giants for a desperate fight with the widely praised Beaneaters. McGraw pays no attention to the wagers of the wise men or the odds quoted by the lightning calculators. built around the marvelous Percy Wendell, now captain. Ills running mates In the back field will be all new men. unless Felton, the star end, is drawn back. Percy Haugh ton will have to till up several lino positions that have been vacated by stars, particularly the job at guard, held down by the powerful Cap tain Fisher, who made the all- American two years hand-running Today Yale opens with Wesleyan at New Haven. On Saturday Har vard gets under wav against Maine at Cambridge, and Princeton meets Stevens in the Tiger lair. None of these games are heavy. The first battle in the triangular title se ries is scheduled with Princeton visiting Harvard on November 2. Yale goes to Princeton November 16 and Harvard plays on Yale field November 43. TECH FOOTBALL TEAM HAS FIRST SCRIMMAGE The first real scrimmage for the Yel low Jacket squad was held yesterday afternoon, and the pace set was lively and fast, from start to finish. The varsity was on the defense and had their hands full keeping the scrubs from walking away with them. There were about 65 men out in uni form and amtfng them were a great many big men. Colley, Montague. Jones. Sneed and several other men weighing around 175 were down ready for work. Elmer hits gotten in school and re ports for the first time this afternoon He is in good condition and will most likely be used in Saturday's game with tile Eleventh cavalry. Cook is showing up in great style and should make a half of the best kind. McDonald and Fielder, of last year’s second string men, are rapidly getting into condition and are making the backfield a lively proposition. No line can be got on the regulars as yet. but in the next few days the threshing will begin and the “big team” will be gin its long gruel for the November games PAPKE AND DENNING MIX IN GOTHAM RING TONIGHT NEW YORK. Sept 25—Billy Papke, tin "Illinois Thunderbolt." will make an effort to come back at the St Nicholas Athletic club tonight Papke will meet Jack Denning, a local middleweight, in a ten-round contest and will attempt to uncork some of the form that onee brought him the middleweight belt. At the St. Nicholas. Johnny Dundee, of this city will meet George Kirk wood. of St Louis. Both are fast featherweight*. MISSION WILL W ARRANGE BIG SERIES New YORK. Sept. 25.—The method of distributing tick ets for the world's champion baseball series between»the Giants and the Ruston Red Sox (for it is universally conceded now that those two teams will fight it out) was the big question for settlement, along with setting a date for the games to begin, at the meeting of the national commission here to day. The meeting was called at the residence of John T. Brush, presi dent of the New York club, at Pel ham Manor. Mr. Brush was re cently hurt in an automobile acci dent and moves with difficulty and the meeting at the Brush home of fered less chance of interruption from reporters and others. Among those here to participate in the pow-wow were President Thomas J. Lynch, of the National Hague: President Ban Johnson, of the American league; John A. Heydler, secretary of the National league; Garry Herrmann, chairman of the national commission; Vice President J. R. Taylor, Boston Americans; Robert Mcßoj, secre tary of the Boston Americans, and Mr. Brush, Before the meeting began it was intimated that the games would stall either October 7 or 8, and that the teams wilt not play games al ternately in Boston and New York, but hill play two games in suc cession upon each field. MILITARY COLLEGE PLAYS LOCUST GROVE SATURDAY LOCI ST GROVE, GA.. Sept. 25.—0 n Katurcay the strong team from Georgia Military college will line up against the team representing Locust Grove institute hert- Ihe Georgia Military college have an excellent team this year, having al ready defeated the Lanie High school, 79 to 0. l oach Maddox lias rounded his men into good Shape already, and it looks like Pros dent Horton has secured a winning bunch. Locust Grove institute lias a very light and inexperienced team, and will not be in near so good trim as the Georgia Mili tary college, but they hope to make a better showing against them than Lanier did. The following is the schedule of Locust Grove institute: September 25 Georgia Military college, at Locust Grove. October 9—Riverside Military academy, at Gainesville October 14 -Gordon institute, at Barnes ville October 21—Stone Mountain, at Locust Grove. October 28—Open November 2--Open. November 8 Gordon institute, at Lo cust Grove. November IS open. November 28 Georgia Military college, at Milledgeville. MURPHY TELLS WHY CUBS MUST LEAD “SIMPLE LIFE” CHICAGO. Sept in a statement in which he says that drinking virtually cost his team a world’s series at one time and a league pennant at another. President Hilaries \V. Murphy, of the Cubs, explains his recent edict against alcohol. ’ “At a National league meeting after the season of 1909, Mr Preyfuss was congratulated by all the league club own ers for his victory,” said Murphy. "After the handshaking was over, he turned to me and said. 'Prinking too much booze cost your club the flag.' " Then Murphy said he investigated At the world's series against the Athletics, a fielder misjudged a tly ball and struck out twice. "I did not learn until we traded this player off that he came into the hotel drunk at 3:30 on the morning of that game,” Murphy said. Murphy asserts that he discovered after the suspension of a player in Cincinnati that certain persons in the land of the Reds were in the habit of taking his players to road houses, ostensibly to dine them, and that usually the men drank too much. Persons who have traveled with both teams have told Murphy that the mem bers of the White Sox drink less than the Cubs Consideration for the influences over college boys who join the team is an other factor in the order. Murphy con cludes I Fred Lake’s Story of 1909 Sox-Giants Series -?•%- ->••? -I-e-j- -!-•+ Ex-Boston Manager Describes Fourth Battle - ■ - - By FRED LAKE - J < UGGSY” M’GRAW smiled l\/l blandly when he handed the umpire his line-up before the fourth game of the Giants-Red Sox series. The little chieftain thought that the game was already won, as he had select ed Christopher Mathewson, recog nized as the greatest pitcher in the game, to do the honors on the mound. Matty had beaten us in the open ing game by a. score of 4 to 2. True, my boys had hit “Big Six" hard, but the "fadeaway king" al ways tightened up in the pinches and made the heavy Red Sox hit ters eat out of the palm of his hand. Matty has alrvays performed best when his team is literally up against it. We had won two vic tories while the Giants had gath ered in but one game. Therefore, if we won the fourth game we were practically certain of capturing the series, while if the New Yorkers triumphed they wmuld still have a grand chance to win out. That is why McGraw pinned his hopes on the stalwart Mathewson. I did not want to again put Joe Wood against the Giants' star. I realized that Joe Was one of the greatest pitchers in the American league, although he was only nine teen years of age, but I thought that it would be asking too much of the youngster to send him Into the box against Mathewson again. Ray Collins had not worked in the series and was in good con dition. We had picked up Collins from the University of Vermont, where he had' made an enviable rec ord. Most big league managers wouldn’t have selected Collins to pitch that day. They would have i argued that he lacked the experi -1 ence to battle, with Matty. But I ’ was sure that Ray was equal to the task and that he would perform even better when opposing a vet i eran than he would against a man just breaking into the game. And > Collins made good. I have seldom seen a big league ; 7 I I he Big Race ————————————————l Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on how the “Big Five" batters of the American league are hitting: PLAYERS— AB. H. AV. COBB 531 218 .410 SPEAKERS4I 211 .390 JACKSONS3B 207 .385 LAJOIE4OB 142 .348 COLLINS 498 168 .337 Cobb boosted his average two points yesterday by getting three hits out of four trips to the plate. Speaker got only one bingle out of three attempts. Jackson was the real hitting star yes terday. The Nap got two safe swats out of two tries. Lajoie was up four times and hit safely twice. Collins did , | not play yesterday. CRANDALL DRAFTED FROM MEMPHIS BY HOOSIERS ■ Al BURN, N. Y.. Sept. 25.—Secretary John H. Farrell, of the National Associa tlonal of Professional Baseball leagues, ■ gave out a iigt of the men selected by i draft in the opening day of the five days allowed teams In Class AA to draft play* ■ ers. They included: > By Oakland—Newman from Houston, ■ disallowed. • By Portland, Oregon.—Evans from Dal las, disallowed: Wilson from Knoxville. i By Los Angeles—Edmondson from : Houston. By Providence—Crandall from Memphis, • disallowed: Evans from Dallas: Merchant I from Johnson City. Tenn. By Indianapolis—Crandall from Mem phis; Green from Dallas, disallowed By Columbus —Thrasher from Cleveland, i Tenn., disallowed; Vance from Maysville. ' Ky.; Turner from Lexington, Ky. 1 Bv Toledo—Hart from Asheville. ■ i M’GOORTY AFTER GIBBONS. NEW YORK. Sept. 25.—Eddie Mc- ■ Goorty, of Oshkosh, who Was laid claim 1 to the middleweight championship since . his victory over Jack Harrison, the English champion, today challenged Mike Gibbons, of St. Paul, in a ten round bout SCORE, 4TH GAME OF SOX-GIANTS SERIES OF 1909 RED SOX. ab. r. Ib. tb. po. a. e. M'Connell, 2b. 4 0 0 0 4 5 0 Lord, 3b4 0 1113 0 **Speaker, cf. . 4 1 3 3 4 0 0 ♦♦Stahl, Ib. . . .4 0 1 3 8 1 0 Donohue, c. . .2 0 0 0 3 0 0 Niles, rf3 0 0 0 2 0 0 French, ss. . . . 3 0 11 2 1 0 ♦’Hooper, If. . .2 0 2 2 2 0 0 ♦♦Collins, p. . . .3 1 0 0 11 0 Totals 29 2 8 10 27 11 0 NEW YORK. ab. r. Ib. tb. po. a. e. ♦♦Doyle, 2b. . ..4 0 0 0 2 4 0 Seymour, cf. . .4 0 0 0 0 0 0 ♦♦McC’mick, rs. .4 0 0 0 0 0 0 **Murray, If. . . .3 0 0 0 0 0 1 Devlin, 3b3 0 110 10 Bridwell, ss. . ..4 0 0 0 3 4 0 Tennoy, Ib. .. .3 0 1 2 11 1 0 ** Meyers, c.... 3022820 ♦♦Mathewson, p. .3 0 11 0 4 0 Totals .... .31 0 5 624 16 1 ♦♦Still with rival champions. Red Soxloo 000 01*—2 Giantsooo 000 000—0 Two-base hit—Tenney. Three base hit—Stahl. Stolen bases— Speaker, Doyle. First base on balls— Off Collins 2, Mathewson 1. Struck out—-By Collins 2, by Mathewson 7. Sacrifice hit—Hooper. Double plays —Lord to French to Stahl; Bridwell to Tenney to Meyers. Umpires— Eagan and Emslie. Time—l hour 30 minutes. Attendance—s. 224. pitcher do so well ag Collins did that day, while I have never known of a young man to win such dia mond laurels as the sturdy Ver mont youth did. New York made but five scattered hits, while two of them were lucky ones. Five Giants reached first on hits, three on passes, while three others reached the initial sack after forcing men nt second. We scored our first run In the opening inning. With two down, Speaker singled. Matty tried to fool Stahl on a fast curve, but Jake Major Umpires Are to Play Ball; McGraw and Griffith To Be Judges CHICAGO, Sept. 25. —"Ladies and ge’mun, the batteries for todaj a Dineen and Evans for the American league; Eason and Rigler for the Na tional.” Can you imagine Umpire Muggsy McGraw yelling this out and Lt”" pire Clark Griffith standing complacently near first base waiting for game to start? c Well, plans are under way for staging a game between the umpire- o. the American and National leagues to be played the day before the wot-d series starts. The pi meeds will be turned over to Bull Perrine, form handler of the indicator, who is seriously ill on the coast. Among those who have the affair in charge is Umpire Bill Evans, no officiating here at Comiskey park. He told of the plans this afternoon The idea is to stage the fray at whatever park the world series eta and there will be plenty of time for the umpires selected to officiate at the Brown-Cardinal and Sox-Cubs series to reach their respective posts »f ,e the combat. Both President Lynch, of the National, and President Johnson, of American league, have been asked for permission to give the benefit M 1 ’ Graw and Griffith have consented to umpire. Let it be understood at once that he game itself wouldn't be anj ” either, because practically all of the present day umpires have been s tu ‘ players in their time. There are ten umpires in the American league right now and m.tn. in the National, so there would be no difficulty in recruiting two team and have a pinch hitter on the side. Bill Dineen, who was a star with t e Browns, can still pitch good enough to baffle some of the present day ters. Eason’s experience with the Reds is still remcmbeied. FRANK CHANCE TO LEAVE GOTHAM HOSPITAL TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Frank Chance, manager of the Chicago Nationals, who was operated on here a week ago for the removal of a blood clot on the brain, ex pects to be out today. His physicians have set Saturday as the date for his re turn to Chicago. I was expecting such a ball and i hammered it down the right field foul line for three bases. The Red Sox tallied again in the eighth. Harry Hooper was the first man up and the fleet Californian beat out a bunt. Collins attempted to sacrifice, but Mathewson fielded the ball in time to get Hooper at second. Harry Lord proved his worth by driving out a rattling single, which sent Collins to second, from where he scored a minute later with the second and final run of the game on Speaker’s single. Speaker Hit Matty. Tris did not experience a great deal of difficulty In solving Matty’s delivery and got three hits out of four times as the bat. The playing of Amby McConnell at second base was the fielding fea ture of the day. McConnell played remarkable ball, his wonderful speed and headwork cutting down several New York runs. McConnell made four putouts while he accept ed five difficult chances without » miscue. Harry Lord also fielded brilliantly at third base. He made one put out and three assists. The Red Sox did not make a single error, while the Giants made one. "Red'’ Murray was the offender. He dropped a hard hit ball after a long run. I was elated over our victory over the Giants. I knew that we had them on the run and that we wmuld be able to capture the fifth game of the series on the follow ing day'. McGraw’s “well oiled machine had failed to make good. It had been routed by a teain of young bail players just breaking into the game. The New York veterans had played the game to the limit, but they had met their masters. We had beaten their trump card .“" Christy Mathewson. That Is wny we were certain that we woun sweep all before us in the next game of the series, which wa scheduled to be played at • York. JACK BRITTON AN EASY WINNER OVER REDMOND NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—That Jacki ton, the clever Chicago ligtitweig 1 beat Jack Redmond, of Milwaukee- 4 New Star last night, is going t 0 ,-jn name for himself 1n the East ter. was the opinion expressed '" I 1 cB those who saw the bout. Britton easily.