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Sam Crane Picks Giants; Says
McGraw Will Outgeneral Stahl
By Sam Crane.
(Dean of Major League Baseball
Writer*.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 27. —With
the Giants having the Naiion
al league pennant so near to
being cinched that figures show
the Chicago Cubs have practically
nn show at all to challenge the
Giants for its possession, it is now
in order to speculate and figure on
the respective chances of tin- Giants
and Boston Red Sox for the world s
championship
If the Giants were sure to make
the showing in every game of the
world's series that they did against
the Pittsburg Pirates on Saturday.
Manager McGraw would have a
right to consider tiiat he had the
gonfalon emblematical of the base
ball championship of the universe
already tucked securely away in his
in.-ide test pocket, but. unfortu
nately. the Giants can not be de
pended on to play steady baseball
day in and day out. In fact they
have proven themselves to be in
and-outers of the most erratic kind.
Since around about July 4. with
one or two short periods excepted,
the Giants have played such a tan
talizing. aggravating game that any
of their rooters who have seen them
play regularly have been lucky to
keep out of the nutty or bughouse
class of baseball fans
Took Sensational Brace*.
But still while in the very thick
of the worst of their slumps they
would take the moat sudden and
unexpected braces and re-establish
themselves In a lead that would
dumfound their rivals who were
giving them ,the closest tights.
Their reversals of form in Pitts
burg and Philadelphia were two in
stances when they “came back"
and restored the waning confidence
of their friends and supporters
It was not always either that
they were able to help themselves.
The Cubs, fortunately, took tum
bles at unexpected times and
against teams that did not look
strong enough to make the Chica
go battler* "crack.”
That they did, though, and while
punctuating the uncertainty of
baseball by beating the Cubs at
times when the Giants were in their
most dangerous predicaments, still
those defeat* of their closest oppo
nents came when the Giants need
ed such assistance the most, and
gaw them the opportunity to re
vive their drooping spirits and get
into their winning stride again
B g Lead Cut Down.
With tin Giants enjoying a lead
of sixteen ganvs around July 4,
that appeared io Io- impossible to
overcome still they drifted, drifted,
drifted from that big handicap they
had forced on thefr opponents until
they held the paltry lead of only
four and a half games. They could
see the pennant they had counted
on so confidently, and naturally so.
-lipping, gliding away from them,
and i ne world’s < hampionship, with
all its big returns’ of money glory
and honor, gradually ebbing else
wheie and to otl vr players.
It is little mintin' there was due
dismay in the Giants' camp and un
told wotry on the mind of their
manage! John J McGraw He
knew full well that his team and
himself would b< the laughing
st' ' k of baseball fandom i he coun
try over should Hie commanding
lead they one* hud be overcome and
the '"am I" icon out in the ,nd
Bat that unfortunate contingency
will not arise
Couldn't Stand Hot Weather.
Ihi Gants, ar they s< ■. m inva
riably fa;,,, j n 1,,,( weather to do.
slump,,, igain this -eason in tile
• months. They did s<,
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abnormally, and just imagined the
torrid weather was too much for
them to withstand, and those were
the times when McGraw was wor
ried the most.
He was more than that. He Was
mad clear through, and made no
bones of telling Ills players what
he thought of them.
Then more pleasant and easy
times came. The boys took a brace,
and the Cubs and Pirates had their
slumps. Matters took a mole fa
vorable turn, and the present sit
uation has arrived where the
Giants can not lose.
On Saturday, after the Giants
beat the Pirates and it was known
the Cubs had been defeated twice
by the Phillies. McGraw took his
first good sleep for many a long
night.
The Giants, one and all, firmly
believe they will beat out the Red
Sox for the world's championship.
Two of the most prominent among
them—Mathewson ami Meyers
have come out with their own sign
ed .statements in The New York
American tiiat the Giants will win,
but It will be because John McGraw
knows more baseball than Jake
Stahl, and It is on that account
that I feel free to express my opin
ion that the Giants will beat out the
Red Sox
Giants' Machine Better.
Individually, I do not think the
Giants are in anv wav superior to
the Red Sox. but when team work
is to be considered, and the corn
ing world’s series surely will be di
verted from individualism to a
question of uniflcation. 1 firmly be
lieve for the two teams are evenly'
enough matched otherwise to war
rant that belief, then is the time
McGraw and his Giants will flush,
and flash winningly.
That the Giants failed to play
winning ball in but two games last
week does not figure deeply with
me. The Red Sox have had their
little slump of late too. but I have
never yet witnessed a world's
championship series in which both
contenders did not arise to the im
portance of the occasion. They are
always primed to it
The Giants can be depended on,
and with Tesreau to offset Wood
and Mathewson and Marquard to
assist "Hig Jeff," things look pret
ty smooth to me.
Montgomery Franchise
Is for Sale: Billikens
May Go to Little Rock
MONTGOMERY ALA.. Sept 27.
The Montgomery baseball franchise in
Hie Southern league Is for sale, ac
cording to a statement of Owner Rich
ard Tillis follow ing the breaking off of
negotiations foi a guarantee fund by
the Montgomery Business Men s league,
i he league had raised the necessary
guarantet to keep baseball In Mont
gomery for the next three years, but
Mr. Tillis and directors of the league
I could not agree on the contract which
i was to be signed by both parties.
Mr Tillis refused, during the past
summer, an offer for the franchise from
i Little Rock He declined to sav wheth-
I er he would accept this offer if it was
I made again
WOLGAST TO BATTLE IN
TRISCO ON TURKEY DAY
SAN I'RAN’t'lSi'G. Sept. 27 Jamis
i''offroth is smiling and happy today,
i He has a telegram from Tom Jones
l.i{ tweight <'ha npion Ad
I Wolgas-. say ing the <’adlllni lad will
jJourney to San I ran, isco to battle on
Thanksgiving day y|| irrangements
the mat, I ar, not e<,mulcted, but
I • t’let Willi,. Rd. hi. or I- rank . Hurns I
" ,r < ent against tin title ho|,|ei 1
I'HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEAVS.ERIDAV. SEPTEMBER 27. 1912.
Pittsburg Manager Believes McGraw’s Team Will Beat Red Sox
FRED CLARKE TELLS WHT GIANTS WILL WIN SERIES
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By Fred Clarke.
(Manager Pittsburg Pirates.)
PITTSBURG. Sept. 27.—1 think
the Giants will win the
world's series, but maybe it
is only a hunch that I have. I
think the series will come down to
a question of managers, and that
will mean that the manager who
knows the most baseball and gets
the best team work out of his play
ers will yank down the persim
mons, and McGraw is that man
ager.
Any one game of baseball is hard
to dope out beforehand, and a se
ries of seven games is even more
difficult. A team is either going
bad or good. When one is bad, the
best batter on the team can not
seem to be able to even lilt a long
fly that will send in a runner from
third when the run would win the
game. At other times, when the
same team is going good, there is
no pitcher who can fool the same
batter no matter how great a pitch
er he may be.
The changes, too. from good to
bad or vice versa comes like a
flash, and there is no explanation
for It. It is simply baseball, and
will be an unexplained feature of
the game as long as it exists.
Giants Not Hitting.
I’he Giants have not been hit
ting for some time, but 1 figure they
will be about due to get into their
batting stride by the time to play
the world's series arrives. If they
do. then they will hit any pitcher
the Red Sox put up against them.
On the other hand, the Red Sox
have been batting heavily all sea
son with hardly a slump. They
are. by all the past history of the
game—well, let us say automatical
ly to let down in their hitting.
There is a psychological time for
one club or another to start a
world’s seriei* and if that time is
Struck exactly right the team lucky
enough to get that break is prac
tically unbeatable. Why. two years
ago. if Charley Murphy had called
off games a week ahead, as he was
pressed to do, so that the t/übs
could have started the world’s se
ries a week earlier. the Cubs
would have beaten out the Ath
letics, for the Cubs would have
been just primed for the battle
Rut In one short week they
changed from good to bad. while
the Athletics, by not having the
championship of their own league
to worry about, were both physical
ly am! mentally better prepared.
1 look for the Giants to be ex
| actly tit ami ready for the coming
series, while the R-»d Sox will not
be as much on edge The latter, by
all baseball precedent, are due for
a slump
Red Sox Due For a Tumble.
This may appear as if supersti
tion figured in my dope, but I don't
think so. for 1' have never gone
through a season when any team
did not have a tumble, and the
Red Sox have been going too
smoothly all this season to es
cape.
If both the Giants and Red Sox
happen to be going bad. though,
then is the time that superior man
agement will count the most and
best. Any team tiiat Is going good
does not require much, if any. man
agement or headwork display. The
breaks do the winning work but
It is always the time when teams
are going bad that a good team
shows that it Is good, as paradoxi
cal as that may seem. It is in the
rocky days that the manager who
knows the most baseball will show
It.
Hut with an even break, in my
opinion, it will b. McGraw's bet
tor knowledge of Lu game, the sys
| tern of team work he ha.- instilled
in hi.® player*, that >i pul’ him
out winner over Manag, Stahl.
Man-to-Man Comparison of Title Rivals
In the following table the New York and Boston players are compared,
man for man. on the unofficial figures up to and Including Wednesday's games,
the New York player being named first in each case:
—Fielding Batting
G- RO. A E. AV. AB. R. H. AV.
Merkle, first basells 1028 58 29 .973 410 71 126 307
Stahl, first base 67 655 32 9 .987 280 30 82
Doyle, second base -.112 274 300 42 .932 485 95 165 340
Yerkes, second base 109 175 279 20 .958 449 67 125
Fletcher, shortstop 106 207 353 48 .921 359 55 93 .259
Wagner, shortstop 128 302 343 51 .927 466 68 125 .268
Gardner, third base .130 148 280 24 .946 431 69 113 .262
Herzog, third base . .123 139 271 32 .929 481 78 153 .318
Meyers, catcher 112 537 94 18 .972 351 59 120 .342
Carrigan, catcher 80 378 94 15 .969 241 26 63 .262
Devore, left field 80 114 16 15 .897 296 58 72 243
Becker, left field .108 212 21 10 .959 382 64 103 270
Lewis, left field 131 259 18 11 .962 500 71 135
Snodgrass, center field 100 207 20 15 .938 465 86 120 258
Speaker, center field .131 331 35 17 .956 512 118 198 '387
Murray, right field .. 123 328 14 10 .972 487 73 133 273
Hooper, right field 125 297 20 9 . 972 512 86 134 .262
New York ♦.. ... 3555 1656 269 .951 4478 756 1254 280
Boston - . 3622 1688 231 .958 4466 694 1236 . 276
LONG HITS BY CLUBS.
28. 38. H.R. T.B. E.B. AV
New York 208 80 44 1764 500 .932
Boston 232 72 25 1687 431
IGIANTS RESTING; HAVE
WON NATIONALPENNANT
NEW YORK. Sept. 27.—With
the pennant theirs, the
Giants have stated to rest
up for the world’s series with the
Red Sox. Manager McGraw an
nounced today that from now on
he would give the new men a
chance to display*'their wares. The
veterans will be worked just enough
to keep them on .edge for the cham
pionship struggle which starts Oc
tober 8.
The Giant.- clinched the pennant
when they won both ends of a
double-header from the Boston
team here yesterday afternoon.
And it was Al Demaree, former
Mobile hurler, who won the last
game for the home team. The
youngster, therefore, is carrying
the title of "pennant winner” to
day. And he is a hero with the
veterans, too. for his sterling per
formance. He not only beat Bos
ton, but shut them out. 4 to 0. al-
I FODDER FOR FANS I
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Al Demarce sure got awav to a living
start with the Giants If Al could only
develop a free swing he would be a bear
cat.
• • •
T> Cobb’s fast work on thp bases in one
inning yesterday upset the entire Cleve
land team. Ty got all the way around on
three bunched errors.
Boston needs only one more victory to
establish a new American leagu* record
for games won
• • *
For the second time within a week Van-
Dyke. the Red Sox's recruit from the
New England league, failed to make good
The Yankees slaughtered his delivers yes
terday
• • •
Garrison finishes were the proper thing
yesterdav. Red Sox beat Yankees in final
.nning by grabbing eight runs. Cincinnati,
made ten runs in tinal spasm against the
Cubs, but the Reds were found one tun
shy even then of a victory, as the Cubs
won out in their half
• • •
.limin' Lavender was the boy the Reds
started the 10-run bombardment on
.Miller, us the I’hillsure had his ash
well oiled yesterday in the double-header
with the Dodgers He made a total of 7 >
hits in two games Two triples and a
double were included
• • •
Rugon. of Rrboklyn. pulled a John An
derson yesterday He tried to steal sec
ond when that base was occupied by a .
runner.
Erank Chance is in good with Char- '
ley Murphy now The Cub manager called
h>s boss a liar y esterday in reply to a ,
statement that the Chicago team has been I
losing on account of drinking
• • •
Murph\ ■* h sore loser H‘>u any hall I
pla'er van work for him and gA-p best
their ’s in him i« a < onundrum.
• • •
Klawinet former Cant pitcher, drafted)
by Detroit from the Pacific ( oast league.
lowing only seven scattered hits.
New York and Chicago each have
nine games to play before October
6, the official ending of the season.
Chicago could win all of its games
and New York lose all without dis
placing the Giants.
The standing with the pennant
clinched by New York is as fol
lows:
Clubs. w. L P.C.
New York 99 44 .693
Chicagoß9 54 .622
Pittsbug 88 56 .611
It is an interesting fact that with
New York clinching the pennant,
its percentage of games won in the
National league is .693. compared
with the Boston percentage in the
American league to date of .682,
showing that the two clubs have
won a very even race.
In the second game Demaree is
sued only one pass and fanned nine
men. In two innings the visitors
opened on him with an extra base
hit. but could not score.
wants to give up hurling and become a
shortstop.
• • •
Boston fans have presented Heinie
Magner with a loving cup
• • «
Mike Donlin has taken up Christian
Science. Says it cured his actress wife
Mabe! Hite, when medicine failed.
• • •
St Louis scribes panned Erank Laporte
until Stovall sold him to Washington.
And now that Laporte is slugging the pill
to a standstill, the Mound Citv scribes
are After Stovall for letting him go.
Tris Speaker's slump in batting is caus
ing a heap of worry in Boston Predict
however, that he will rind his eve bv Or.'
tober X He never failed yet in a pinch
Like most of us. Eddie Collins savs the
. Red Sox will win because their pitchers
are better than the Giants
* • ■
Pitcher Powers in a semi-pro game at
Helena. Mont., fanned 25 men in nine in
nings the Other day. and then lost the
game 7 to The catcher who worked
with Powers made 20 putouts. Sassists arid
7 errors.
• • •
Says Hal Chase. "Giants will be easy
. for Red Sox. Wood will beat anv pitcher
McGraw sends to the box. Speaker will
hit all of the Giants' pitchers. Marquard
especially hard."
• • •
The Reds have secured Packard from
Columbus. This boy pitched the Ameri
|< an association team to 25 victories and
j only 7 defeats.
Clark Griffith thinks that the weather
jin Washington is too hot to permit a
I team to do its best work Tn circumvent
fthe thermometer. Griff might transfer a'l
August dates at the capital to Winni
tpeg
Jimmy Archer recently chased a foul it
•he Polo grounds t blatant fan called
nut: I've got it.' 'Well take it."
I Archer s rejoinde- The fan didn t. how
ever for the ball almost bcaned him
Hub Catchers Killed Off Two of
Every Five Would-Be Pilferers
HE New York Giants, the Na-
; tional league's entrants for
the world’s series to be
staged next month, have stolen
more bases this year than any other
team in the senior organization and
their followers expect that when
they get into their important bat
tles with the Red Sox. they will be
able to pilfer quite a few sacks on
Carrigan and his associates on the
Boston catching staff. The adher
ents of the Red Sox just as nat
urally figure that Carrigan. Cady
et al. will be able to keep McGraw’s
band of speedy athletes from run
ning wild on the paths.
Time will tell which set of fans
is right. The figures show that
when the Boston and New York
clubs played a post series in 1909,
the. New Yorkers filched eleven
hassocks in five games and the Bos
ton catchers threw out four men.
Bill Carrigan caught three of these
contests and it was he who flagged
the four McGrawftes, Pat Donohue
not making a throw that stopped
anyone.
Kept Runners Down Close.
In the American league this year
the Speed Boys' opponents have
not been stealing with great fre
quency on Carrigan. Cady. Nuna
maker and Thomas. In the first
five months of the season the Bos
tonians’ adversaries pilfered 157
bases, Chicago getting 30, Washing
ton 24. Philadelphia 23, New York
22. Detroit 21, St. Louis 20 and
Cleveland 17. While the Speed
Boys’ rivals were acquiring this
number of larcenies, 105 more or
less fleet pastimers were being kill
ed off in endeavoring to steal. Thus
Carrigan, Cady and the other two
receivers have thrown out two of
every five men who have endeavor
ed to do the Raffles act.
Carrigan has had 88 bases stolen
on him and his good right arm
has cut down 65 men. Young Cady.
Joe Wood's battery mate, has done
even better than Carrigan, who may
or may not receive some votes
for the Chalmers car this year.
Cady has permitted 24 steals and
has refused to stand for 21 thefts.
Leslie Nunamaker has cut down 23
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men who tried to steal bases and is
charged with having allowed 37
steals. Young Thomas, who is not
likely to be given a chance to play
in the series, has flagged f our men
and his throws have ben beaten
eight times.
From the subjoined fist of lay
ers who have been thrown ont by
the Boston catchers this season,
fans may make up their own minds
as to whether or not the (Rant*
will be likely to run bases at will
on Carrigan, Cady or Bhinamafc**
Victims of Carrigan.
Chicago—Rath, 3; Lord, 3; Weav
er. 2; Zeider, 2; Bodie, 1; Mattick.
1; Collins, I; Eoumler, 1; Mcln
tyre, 1.
New York—Zinn. 2; Deign, 1|
Hartzell, 1; Sterrett, 1.
Detroit—Cobb, 2; Jones. 1; Craw
ford. 2; Baumann. 2; Bush, 1; Del
ehanty. 1; Vitt, 1; Louden, 1. Deal,
1; McDermott, 1.
Philadelphia—Strunk. 3; D. Mur
phy, 2; Oldring. 2; Colling, 1; Lord,
1; Barry 1.
St. Louis—Austin, 3; Shotten R
Pratt, 1; Williams, 1; Jantzen. J.
Washington— Flynn, 2; Morgan,
1; Gandil, 1; Foster, 1
Cleveland—Lajoie. 1: Ryan. I|
Jackson, 1; Ball, 1; Griggs, J.
Victims of Cady.
Chicago—Lord, 1; Callahan, tj
Bodie. 1; Rath, 1.
New York—Chase. 1; Sterrett, 1.
Detroit—Cobb, 1; Delehanty, U
Louden, 1; Jones, 1.
St. Louis—Kutina, 2; Stovall, it
Austin, 1; Stephens, 1; Laporte. 1.
Washington—Foster. 1; Mcßride,
1; Shanks, 1.
Cleveland—Jackson. 1; Griggs. 1.
Victims of Nunam«k»r.
Chicago—Rath, 1; Zeider, 1; Ixird.
1; Weaver, 1.
New York—Gardner, 1: Cree, 1.
Philadelphia—Mclnnes, 3: Col
lins. 2: Baker, 1.
Washington—Moeller. 2; Milan.
1; Mcßride, 1; Knight, 1; Cunning
ham, 1.
Cleveland—Ball. 1; Birmingham,
1; Peckinpaugh, 1; Butcher, 1.
Victims of Thoms*.
St. Louis —Pratt, 1; Shotten. 1;
Hogan, 1.
Washington—Moran. 1.