Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, September 27, 1912, EXTRA 1, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text®0B» ®W COB® * EIKEW LDITLD W. S FARNgWORTH n Jeff Had a Small and Unappreciative Audience :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher F ~~~ —- r _ x 1/ - \ C 6€, m wfcTTCN HOW W 640. DO ’ ***** *•*** CKCCCDing DRiDHT \ H AT «-**T Sf>Okt (N YOKE 3« fcVEN j Piece OF POGTa-N AS 4HG SWUNG uPt>M VH 6 GAVG f o'ec ’st \ OuTUNtD %MNST BOON'S UIGHT ' • I A *'»D T\i6 GOT To HfcNO IT HQV * p A («. SH£ LOOK6O upon THAT NlfcHt' SH€ SA,iD "AH HE* IT WOULD Rf Hff AvE N ! To MysClF .T'SGRe 6T IT WAS GARFIN SGPTewMJGR. I T Can Plainly SEE H€R. STIUL I ToHAVE SomGSovPkRAuT To NiohtJ"\ I'Ll «r To And ThG NIGHT WAS GGTTINO I ' i . And sat swtuu ano i ~~ n / i /• / ' F | TMGN FLU tell Hua f" ~ \ > ' I | ® ' DBS® ®bf ' *tea k ...mL ® ®lt- *Wills Q, m| fkj-k 188 y IkJir --1 - kjtewSa MBHI W'fl kW -a iWJk J II I * J “ rafc ®B4iß' - JsbbWS !cs - UHL 1111) k%*Sr <k , _—_ Lake Tells Why Red Sox Will Again Beat Giants +*+' +•+ +•+ +•+ -!••+ >!•• + +•+ -i-s-i- +•+ Says Jake Stahl Has a Team of World Beaters Is the story of the fifth s and last pirn* of the Red Sox-Ofants IPOS post-season series. Before reviewing the game I will give my opinion of the mem bers of the present Red Sox team and how they shape up against New Tor* Many of the playefs who took part In the 190? series will battle In the world aeries next month and It may be Interesting to study their playing and try to find out what bearing it will have on the big title games. Tris Speaker was the star of the aeries. He was at bat twenty times tnd made twelve hits, which gave Him an average of .600 per cent for the series 1 consider Speaker one of the greatest players that ever graced the diamond. Speaker was a. marvel 1n 1909. but he 1s even better today. He 1s more experienced, fields better, Is a whirlwind on the bases and has a knack of hitting ’em out in the pinches. "Spoke” will play a better game In the world's series than he has all season. He always performs when under a great strain He will not fall down like Ty Cobb, Hans Wagner and other "headliners” did in former world serleis Tris will be ns unconcerned in the big series as hs would be If he was batting out files to a gang of kids Outfield Wilf Shine. The other two outfielders, I am suns, will ateo ehtne I know more about Hooper than I do about Lew is, for Harry played under me He did wail against New York tn 1909 Hooper has not hit ae well this year m he did last year, hirt never ftwdeee he is a remarkable pie yer. Whan Hooper is off form he has a little something on the average outfielder when ha ts playing his best. Fielding and throwing are a big asset for any baseball club. There are few base runners scor ing from second on a single to right field, while even Ty Cobb Is afraid to take any chances with Hhrry's groat "wing" on outfield flfee I have seen T>ewls play a number of times and he has Impressed me aa being a rattling good ball toeser He Is a good fielder, a wonderful thrower and as dangerous a man as there is in the league to have up when a frit means a run or the breaking up of the game. He hits the ball hard and tiaualy on the line. These are the kind of hits that count The Giants’ outfield Isn’t in it with the Red Sox three gardeners And then there is Hen drickson. who would be playing regularly if with any other team In the league hut Boston I will now say a few words about the infield Jake Stahl, of course, Is a fa- better man than Merkle. The latter may have a shade on Jake when ft comes to playing, but Stahl’s headwork and expe rience place him head and shoul ders above his rival. Jake Is one of the finest fellows personally that eve: played ball. He has the respect of every man on the team and every baseball fan in New England Besides this, tie is a grand ball player, ami a dan gerous hitter. His clouts for ext’a bases have broken up mama game in the past, and 1 wouldn't be sur prised to see Stahl’s big war club play a prominent part In the com ing world series Steve 1 • rkos, at -econd base, has improved wonderfullj during the past yea Most experts rank him far below Larry Hoyle, of the ™ ants -. an<l - although I admit that is a great player, he hasn't *' ' ot on Stev. Yerkes ' "** ’ tim. .st b.ittv on W F' ■ ■ By FRED LAKE SCORE, STH GAME OF SOXGIANTS SERIES OF 1909 RED SOX. Players. ab. r. Ib. tb. po. a. e. McConnell, 2b. . 4 2 2 2 6 0 0 Lord, 3b4 112 111 ‘‘Speaker, of. . 3 0 2 4 3 2 0 “Stahl, Ib. . 4 1 2 2 9 0 0 “Carrigan, o. 3 11 3 3 10 Niles, If. . . . 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 French, se. . 4 0 0 0 0 9 0 “Hooper, rs. . . 3 0 11 0 0 0 “Pape, p. ... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wolter, p. . 0000000 Mathews, p. . . 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 “Hall, p. ...1 0 0 0 0 2 0 Totals 32 5 9 14 27 15 1 NEW YORK. Players. ab. r. Ib. tb. po. a. e. “Doyle, 2b. . . 5 0 11 4 3 1 Seymour, of. . . 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 “Herzog, If. 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 “McCormick, If. 2 0 11 10 0 “Snodgrass, cf.. 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 “Murray, rs. . . 5 0 2 2 1 0 0 Devlin, 3b. ... 11 0 0 0 1 0 Bridwell, ss. . 4 11 1 14 0 “Merkle, Ib. . . 4 1 2 2 11 0 0 Schlet, o 3 11 140 1 “Crandall, p. 4 0 2 4 0 5 0 Totals . . . .34 4 10 12 27 13 2 “Still with rival champions. Score by innings: R. Red Sox2ol 002 000—5 New Yorkol2 010 000—4 Summary: Two-base hit—Lord. Three-base hits—Crandall, Speak er, Carrigan. Stolen bases—McCon nell, 2; Stahl. Left on bases—Red Sox, 4; New York, 9. Bases on balls —Off Pape, 1; off Wolter, 2; off Mathews, 3; off Crandall. 1. Balk— Pape. Struck out —By Wolter, 1; by Mathews, 1; by Hall. 1; by Cran dall, 3. Sacrifice nits—Carrigan, Speaker. Double plays—Speaker to Lord to Stahl, Doyle (unassisted). Hits—Off Pape, 4 in 11-3 innings; off Wolter, 3 in 1 2-3 innings; off Mathewa, 2 in 2 innings; off Hall, 1 In 4 innings. Umpires—Rigler and Connolly. Time—l hour and 36 minutes. Attendance—769. much space to "Heinle" Wagner. He is a better player than Fletcher, of New York It is enough for me to say that he is the brainiest and beet shortstop in either league and that if Wagner had not been in the line-up the Red Sox would not have captured the American league flag Gardner Is a Star, Too. At third base the Sox have a star r*rformer in Larry Gardner, whom I consider a better player than Herzog of the Giants, even though the latter is classed among the leading third basemen in the busi ness Gardner Is young, strong and willing and can play ball with the best of them. Keep your eye on Larry tn the world's aeries and he will show you how that third bag should be played. The pitchers—well, they are all just great. Joe Wood. Ray Collins and Charley Hnll all worked under me. They were stars then. They are wonders now And then there are "Buck" O’Brien and Hugh Be dlent, two of the loading recruit pitchers In the country Stahl has a tine staff of catch ers No club in the country has four backstops the equal of Carri gan. Cady, Nunamaker and Thom as. Carrigan is a wonder the brains of the battery. He is a fighter through and through and as daring a receiver as there Is. Without "Fighting Bill" in the line up, the Sox pitchers would be se vrrelx handicapped. The Giants of 1912 arc a powerful aggregation, but I am certain that the Red Sox will triumph as they did In 1909. How the Sox Won in 1909. 1 will now describe how the Red Sox won tl’e fifth game of tile 1909 series, thus making it four out of fi\ t from the Giants. The Red Sox outplayed the Giants in every m-partmeiit c»f the game. I HK A TLAN TA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. My boys were anxious to start for their homes, and so went after New York from the drop of the hat. And they made good. The final score was 5 to 4 in our favor. I used four piteh’ers before the contest came to a close—Pape, Wolter, Mathews and Hall officiat ing on the mound. Otis Crandall pitched for the Giants. He did well, but was unable to hold the Red Sox in the pinches. The Giants tried their hardest to win. Mathewson coached the en tire New York team from the bench, while Arlie Latham pulled off "stuff" which would never have been allowed to go by unnoticed at a regular game in the American league. But we were undisturbed. We knew that we had the Giants’ number, and so went In and beat them soundly. We started after Crandall in the opening inning and scored two runs. We got another tally in the third, while we. gathered in two more runs in the sixth. How the Pitchers Worked. Larry Pape started in the box for the Red Sox, but I was forced to take him out in the second inning with one down, as he was as wild as a hawk. Harry Wolter then went onto the slab, but he, too, was wild and lasted but three and , one-third innings. Then came Mathews. He Is a southpaw, and was going fine during the two in nings that he was in the box. I took him out when McGraw sub stituted Charley Herzog for Sey mour and Snodgrass for McCor mick. Both Herzog and Snodgrass are right-handed hitters, and the Giants’ leader thought that they would be able to batter down our defense. I fooled McGraw by taking Math ews out of the box and sending Charley Hall into the fray. It was late in October and it was g. tting dark. Charley had his speed ball working In great shape and was invincible. Hall allowed but one hit during the four innings that he pitched. The Giants scored their first run in the second inning off Pape. They scored two more runs in the third, w hile their final run was scored in the fifth chapter. They were pow - erless after Hall went into the box. PAPKE AND DENNING IN EVEN BOUT AT NEW YORK NEW YORK, Sept. 26.*—Again Billy Papke, "Illinois Thunderbolt" and for mer middleweight champion, failed to .come back. Although Papke's friends claimed today that the former cham pion had shaded Jack Denning, of this city, in their ten-round bout at St. Nicholas rink las. night the general opinion throughout sporting circles was that Papke would have been fortunate to get a draw if decisions were allowed in this state. Johnny Dundee, a local feather weight. beat George Kirkwood, of St Louis In a fast bout. tommy McFarland wins FAST BOUT OVER WATSON SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 26. Tom my McFarland is th< possessor of a nice new decision today, while "Red" Watson is emitting loud shrieks of foul. McFarland pummeled Watson for ten frtirring rounds at the Oakland Wheel men’s club last night Watson opined many of the blows landed below the belt, but the referee and spectators fiid not agree with him. CORNELL WINS GAME BY GOAL FROM PLACEMENT ITHACA. N. Y.. Sept. 26.—Captain Butler's toe won the day for Cornell from Washington and Jefferson in the first football gam, of the season here yesterday by the score of 3 to u. In the last minute of play Rutter kicked a difficult goal from placement. The Big Race j Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on how the "Big Five" batters of the Amer ican league are hitting: PLAYERS— AB. H AV. COBB 531 218 .410 SPEAKER ca 4 zlz .jso JACKSON 538 207 .385 LAJOIE 408 142 .348 COLLINS 498 168 .337 Tris Speaker was the only member of the "Big Five" who played yesterday. The Boston slugger was at bat three times and made one hit. FIFTH REGIMENT FORMS BIG BASKET BALL LEAGUE The Fifth Regiment Basket Ball league was formed last night at a meet ing held at Durand's case. Colonel E. E. Pomeroy was present, with Lieutenant Colonel <). 11. Hall, Captain Quillian. Lieutenant Webster and Messrs. Elrod and Hudson. The league will open October 9 for a seven weeks series of 28 games. Dou bleheaders will be played every Wed nesday and Friday nights. All the games, of course, will be played on the Armory courts. The following companies have organ ized teams: Allanta Guards, Grady Cadets, Fulton Blues, Fulton Fusilleers. German-American Guards. Atlanta Grajs, Marist Rilles and Governor’s Horse Guard. The teams include some of the best amateur players in the city, and the games are certain to attract attention throughout the winter. CALLAWAY AND SMITH OFF FOR WASHINGTON Piesident Callaway and Manager Smith of the Crackers leave today for Washington fora conference with Clark Gritlith. manager of the Senators, in regard to landing some material for the local team of 1913. Smith saw Griffith al the national commission meeting in Cincinnati and the "Old Fox’ 1 practically promised Billy that he would use Atlanta as a farm next year. Smith expects to close the deal for the return of Joe Agler to the local team. Also he will try to land Weh-honce and Moran, a pitcher and an infielder. CATCHER LEW McALLISTER IS BOUGHT BY CRACKERS Manager Billy Smith has purchased Catcher Lew McAllister, a former De troit Tiger, who played under Billy in Buffalo a few years ago. McAllister was declared a free agent this fall and Bill) believes that he will be just the man he needs. McAllister. figures Smith, will again forge to the front under Southern skies and in Southern cliijiate. McAllister is a heady catcher with a fairly good arm. He is a. big fellow and a fine handler of young pitchers. Although not a .300 hitter by any means, McAllister certainly sends the ball a mile when he does connect. SID SMITH IN TOWN: HE WANTS TO RETURN HERE Sid Smith, former Atlanta catcher, who has been catching swell ball this season for the Columbus club of the American association. Is in the city and is trying to arrange a deal with Billy Smith whereby next season Sidney will again don a Cracker uniform. The Cracker manager is going to try hard to get his namesake back here, and. after a visit to Washington and the world’s series, will probably go to Co lumbus and try to purchase the rotund backstop, or make a satisfactory trade. BROWNS WILL DO SPRING WORK NEXT YEAR AT WACO W ACO. TEXAS, Sept 26.—The St. Louis Americans next year will do spring training here. The acceptance of a proposition submitted to Robert Hedges by the Waco Business Men's club was announced today. About 45 men will be sent here A representa tive of the team is expected here in a few days to sign a contract. SHECKARD LATEST IN LINE FOR CHANCE'S JOB CHICAGO, Sept. 26. —The report that Frank Chance will retire at the end of the present campaign will not down. Jimmy Sheekard. Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers are named as the likely candidates to succeed the P. L.. with the edge in favor of the first named. PRATER DEFEATS "NUBBS." Ed Prater, pool champion of Geor gia. defeated "Nubbs," champion of Florida, last night in a match game p’ayed at the Montgomery billiard par lors. The score was 150 to 130. The second game b't«, . tl p.,, two cham pions will be played tonight. Mathewson Will Use Spitter Against Red Sox •(••-i* V«4- Perfected Wet Fling in Case Fadeaway Fails NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Christy Mathewson, greatest of all hurlers, is to use the “apit ter" against the Boston Red Sox! "Big Jeff” Tesreau and poor "Bugs” Raymond are the only spit ball pitchers of note the Giants have ever had. This is mostly due to the fact that Manager Mc- Graw has always tabooed the use of the saliva shoot by one of his old pitchers, and they have con sci obeyed orders. When Raymond first became a member of the Giants by reason of a trade that Included Roger Bresnahan, about all that Bugs had was the spitter. Anyway, that was his chief stock in trade for effec tiveness, and McGraw, not want ing to injure his catcher's prob lematic usefulness and value to the club and team, allowed the new pitcher, who was a real wonder when right, to continue with his moist slings. - Bugs, .too, had the most natural delivery, consequently the easiest of any pitcher who ever went in the box. McGraw says this to day. If Bugs had been less erratic in mind and habits. McGraw might have endeavored to break him away from the delivery' with which he had obtained his big reputation as a boxman, but Bugs was allowed to pitch in his own way, and would surely have increased his reputa tion and been of immense value, not only to the club and also to himself, if jie had been a differ ent sort of a fellow. But he couldn't or he wouldn’t, and the sad ending of his earthly career recently in Chicago leaves nothing to be said only that he was his own worst enemy. Raymond an Example. The chances Raymond had, though, to become one of the most noted pitchers in the country and the way he threw them away should afford an object lesson to all the prominent ball players, old or young, that are and will be on the diamond after him. Tesreau was not a spitball pitch er when McGraw first secured him for the Giants from the Shreveport (La.) club. He was just a big. strong fellow with terrific speed and the build of an athlete with no end of stamina. He had everything to learn about baseball, and would possibly have gone along an "un taught savage" unless his fortunes had been thrown with such an astute manager as McGraw, and wise, perceptive coach like Wil bert Robinson The big bear strangler was still untamed when he left the Giants' training camp in Marlin, Texas, in the spring of 1911. His speed and stamina were all there, but Mc- Graw with a championship season just starting had not the time to work off the rough edges of the un cut diamond, so he sent him to his friend. Joe Kelley , manager of the Toronto club, for one season in that strong minor league organization. Tesreau took up the spitball him self. He had no curve to speak of and his swiftest balls were too straight. He had to "groom" them to get them over the plate—and then they were "pickled" good and hard. Jeff then bethought himself of the spitter. so that he could get a break on the ball. He met with success with his new delivery from the start, and finished the season of 1911 with a reputation second to no pitcher it: the then Eastern, now International, league. Joe Kelley was not as prolific in his praise of Tesreau as were other managers in his league, and told McGraw that another season in Toronto would put the finishing touches on the big youngster. But McGraw was wise in his By SAM CRANE generation. rea< between the lines of Kelley's half-hearted praise, and took the present pitching sensation of the country under his own wing again, and with Robinson’s assis tance has developed a pitcher who is now considered to be the "white hope” of the National league in the coming world’s series. Tesreau's remarkable record as a Giant this season, his first year in a big league club, too. coming to the front as he did when his serv ices were most needed by the wavering Giants, and his ability to pitch every other day. may have even more effect behind it for future good to the Giants than the fact that he was the savior in a way of the National league pen nant. Matty Will Use “Spitter.” Fans, not alone in this city, but the country over, will be surprised if they should see in the coming world's series Christy Mathewson, the pitcher hero for a dozen years, using the spitball against the Red Sox. But that will surely happen if Matty finds that his famous fadeaway and others of his old de liveries are not effective against the Sox. Matty has kept away from the spitter during all of his long career. “Laid off it" possibly by reason of strict orders by McGraw, but also knowing that he did not have to spring anything new. his old style being effective enough. But "Big Six" is a veteran now, and, while he may be as good as ever, he is not "coming," so this season during practice he has tried During the lon^,dronind, monotonous trial, a(j diew of Drummond jf is adreat comfort to Sr ! s/K KislSKKBKSitn WI I DRUMMOND NATURAL LEAF I CHEWING TOBACCO | himself out with the slippery elm pellet. He does not slobber all over the ball, but moistens it daintily— like a gentleman, as it were—just enough to put the real spttter's quaver- or kink—plenty enough to bamboozle the batsman and still retain the perfect control for which he is so noted. In fact, it is Matty's great com mand of the ball that has worked against his effectiveness consider ably in the last two years or so. He has hit very few' batsmen in his ten years of big 'eague service. Every batter who faces him stands at the plate with absolute confi dence that he will not be hit. That gives a -weak hitter much more courage than can well be imagined, and it has been a handicap on "Big Six." The spitter will come in as a foE for Matty's other deliveries and may cause some of his opponents to dance away from the plate ac cordingly. Any batsman must he kept guessing, and I reckon they will not be with -Matty's newest. YALE HAS HARD TIME IN BEATING WESLEYAN TEAM NEW HAVEN. CONN., Sept 26, For the first time since 1889 Wesleyan scored on a Yale football team yester day and forced the Blue eleven to its limit to win b.v a score of 10 to 3, in the opening game of the season. The score was a tie at 3 to 3, and the game fast drawing to a close, when Captain Spalding, of Yale, plunged through the Wesleyan line for four yards and a touchdown, from which a goal was kicked.