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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<, ■ 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 I 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 —— ’ ; 1 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 i Be a Doer You must have a strong body to do things. Many lag behind and lose the race when the goal is in sight, because some vital organ failed at the crucial moment. I . p e rms get into your system through impure air, drinking water, etc. They exhaust vital organs, sap your strength, and breed most diseases. DR. KING’S Royal Germetuer I • Known as the Germ Destroyer Goes with your blood through the remotest parts of your body, destroying germs, relieving tired organs, and giving back strength to the whole system. It makes you live. GERMETUER is recommended for Indigestion, Rheumatism, Catarrh, LaGrippe, Blood Poison, Nerv ous LJebility, etc. It is harmless and pleasant in action. Its effects are permanent. It’s for you. t or sale by all leading druggists, or ellis-lileybeck drug co. MEMPHIS, TENN. —* 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.