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Hept. the Giants having the Nation al league pennant ik> n**r to being cinched that fignirM show the Chicago Cuba have practically no show at all to challenge the Giants for its pxweaslon, it Is now In order tn speculate and figure on the respective chances of the 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 Ptrates on Saturday, Manager McGraw wonld have a right to consider that he had the gonfalon emblematical of the base ball championship of the universe already tucked securely away In his Inside vest 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 root era who have seen them play regularly have been lucky to keep out <rf the nutty or bug house class of bas'd**!! fan*. Took 3ena«Honal Brace* But still wltUe tn th* very thick of the worst of tholr slumps they wtrnU take ths most sudden and troexpected braces and re-establish tbemseivvs tn a lewd that would dumfotmff their rivals who were giving them the closest fights. Th MT reversals of form In Pitts burg send Philadelphia were two In stances wfmu they "<*mß lawk” and lestiwed the waning confidence of tbefr friends and supporters. It wa* not always either that they wer* atde to help themselves Th* Cubs, fortunately, took tum bles at unexpected times and against teams that did not look strong enough to make the Chica go battlers "crack." That they did, though, and while punctuating the uncertainty of baseball by basting the Cubs at times when the Giants were In their most dangerous predicaments, still those defeats of their closest oppo nents came when the Giants need ed such assistance the most, arid gave them the opportunity to re vive their drooping spirits and get into their winning stride again Big Lead Cut Down. With the Giants enjoying a lead of sixteen games around July 4. that appeared to be impossible to overcome still they drifted, drifted, drifted from that big handicap they had forced on their opponents until they held the paltry lead of only four and a half games. They could so, tin pennant they had counted on so confidently, and naturally so, slipping, gliding away from them, and th< world's championship, with all its big returns of money, glory and honor, gradually ebbing else where and to other players. It is little wonder there was dire di.-may tn the Giants' camp and un tel . worry n the mind ot their manager John .1 McGraw. He kn. w full well that his team and hm.s. if would bi the laughing stock baseball fandom the coun it.i over should the commanding lead they once had be overcome and th, team beaten out in the end. But that unfortunate contingency Couldn't Stand Hot Weather. 1 ml.*, a.s they s. e.in inva- rl “*»ly fated m hot we,,th. rto do, slumped igain this season in the ■‘s'l'i i months. They did si, ' 1 r by piayine the t,■ 11 in ‘ "• l'.c-i ball. They , .xagger a' •• ,l ’ heated spells , n st i.„ us „ I 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 his 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 more 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 aJI, firmly believe they will beat out the Red Sox for the world's championship. Two of the most prominent among them—-Mathewson and Meyers— have come out with thotr own sign ed statements in The New York American that the Olanta 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 any wav superior to the Red Sox, but when team work la so be considered, and the com ing world’s series surely will be di verted from individualism to a question of unification, I firmly be lieve, for the two tennis are evenly enough matched otherwise to war rant that belief, then is the time McGraw and his Giants will flash, and Hash winningly. That the (plants failed to play winning ball ih 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 tlte 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 Ma.rqua.rd to assist "Big 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 the Southern league is for sale, ac cording to a statement of Owner Rich ard Tillis, following the breaking off ot negotiations for a guarantee fund by the Montgomery Business Men's league. Tlte league had rained the necessary guarantee to keep baseball in Mont gomery for the next three years, but Mr. Tillis and directors of the length could not agree on the contract which was to be signed by both parties. .Mr Tillis refused, during the past summer, an offer for the franchise from Little Rock He declined to say wheth er he would accept this offer if it was made again WOLGAST TO BATTLE IN ’FRISCO ON TURKEY DAY B\.\ FR kN’CIBCO, Sept 27 James offroth is smiling and happy today He has a telegram from Tom Jones, nager "f ■ v c impion Ad Wolgasi. sating th, <’adlll.iv lad. will | jam m V ~. S. UI l-'ram iseo to b ntl. on ' ’‘" i 1 ai ■■ not , itmnletcd. but \t ill ■ Ritchie or Frankie Burns nt aga.nst the title hold. , THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER z/, Pittsburg Manager Believes McGraw's Team Will Beat Red Sox FRED CLARKE TELLS WHV (HANTS WILL WIN SERIES By Fred Clarke. (Manager Pittaburg Pirate*.) PITTSBURG, Sept. 27.—1 think the Giant* will win the world’s eerie*, but maybe it is only a hunch 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 hie play er* will yiank down the persim mons, and McGraw la 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 hit n 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 ns long as ft exists. Giants Not Hitting. The Giants have not been hit ting for some time, but I 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 series, and 1f 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 Cubs 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 But 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 and mentally better prepared. I look for the Giants to be ex actly fit and ready for the coming series, while the Red Sox will not be as much on edge. The latter, by all baseball precedent, are duet for a slump. Red Sox Due Bor a Tumble. This may appear as if supersti tion figured in my dope, but I don't think so, for I 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 ami best. Any team that 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 ar.- 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 th< most baseball will show it But with an even break, in my opinion, it will be McGraw's bet ter knowledge of the game, th sys tem of team work ho has Instilled in hie players, that will pull him out wluuar ov, r Man.tget StaliL I 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. P.O. A F AV AB P W AV Merkle, first base 115 1028 58 29 .973 410 ’7l ’ 126 307 Stahl, first base 67 655 32 9 .987 280 30 82 .293 Doyle, second base 112 274 300 42 .932 485 95 165 340 Yerkes, second base 109 175 279 20 .958 449 67 125 278 Fletcher, shortstop 106 207 353 48 .921 35$ 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, Centerfield .100 207 20 15 .938 465 86 120 258 Speaker, center field . . .131 331 35 17 .956 512 113 198 Murray, right field 123 328 14 10 .972 487 73 133 273 Hooper, right field 125 297 20 9 .972 512 86 134 New York 3555 1656 269 .951 4478 756 1254 280 Boston 3622 1688 231 .958 4466 694 1236 LONG HITS BY CLUBS. 28. 38. H.R. T.B. E.B. AV New York 208 80 44 1754 500 932 Boston 232 72 25 1687 431 878 IGIANTS RESTING; HAVE WON NATIONALPENNANT NEW YORK. Sept. 27.—With the pennant theirs, the Giants have started 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 S. The Giants 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- ["fodder for fans" l Al Demaree sure Kot away to a firing start with the Giants. If Al could onlv develop a free swing he would be a bear cat. • ♦ • Ty Cobb's fast work on the bases in one inning yesterday upset the entire Cleve land team. Ty g<»t all the wav around <>n three bunched errors. Boston needs only one more victorv to establish a new’ American league record for games won. • • « For the second time w ithin a week Van- Dyke, the Red Sox's recruit from the New England league, failed to make good The Yankees slaughtered his delivery yes terday. • • • Garrison finishes were the proper thing yesterday. Red Sox beat Yankees in final inning by grabbing eight runs Cincinnati made ten runs In final spasm against the Cubs, but the Reds were found one run shy even then of a victory, as the Cubs won out in their half. • • ♦ Jinimj Lavender was the boy the Reds started the 10-run bombardment on. Miller, of the Phillies, sure had his ash well oiled yesterday In the double-header with the 1 lodgers He made a total of 7 lilts in two games Two triples and a double were Included • • • Ragon. of Brooklyn, pulled a John An derson yesterday. He tried to steal sec ond when that base was occupied by a runner Frank Chance is in "good" with Char- I le\ Murphy now The Cub manager called his boss a liar yesterday in reply to a statement that the Chicago team has been losing on account of drinking • • • Murphy is a sore loser lb * anv ball i layer <an work for him and g><« \ best their is in him is a conundrum • • • Klaw itter f>>rni.-r Gi.ini pit-liar, drafted Wv from the Pacific Coast 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. I'he standing with the pennant clinched by New York is .as fol lows: Clubs w. L. p.c. New York 99 44 .693 Chicagoß9 54 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 .692, showing that the two clubs have won a very even race. In the second game Dorna’ee 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 Wagner with a loving cup. • « • Mike Donlin has taken up Christian •Noience Says it cured his actress wife. Mabel Hite, when medicine failed • • • St Louis scribes panned Frank Laporte until Stovall sold him to Washington. And now that Laporte is slugging the pili 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 find bis eve bv Oc tober 8. He never failed yet In a pinch. I, uio.st of us. Eddie Collins says 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 lO 2 ' T h V ateher ’'•<> worked with 1 owers made 20 putouts. Sassists and j i errors. Says Hal Chase: "Giants will be easv for Red Sox \\ ood will beat anv pitcher Met.raw sends to the box. Speaker will sus. s • • • . Tlie Reds have secured Packard from i olumbus 1 his boy pitched the \ineri can association team to 25 victories and only • defeats. tlark Griffith thinks that the weather in Washington is too hot to permit a team to do its best work. To circumvent the thermometer. Griff might transfer all August dates at the capital to Winni peg .limni.t Archer reventl* chased a foul at I tlie I 010 grounds a blatant fan .ailed j out Ive got it." Well take it. was 1 Archers rejoinder. The fan didn't how’- ever, for the ball almost beaned him. • Hub Catchers Killed Off Two of Every Five Would-Be Pilferers THE New York Giants, the Na tional league’s entrants for the worlds 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 McGrawites. 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 inaker 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 maj 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 Be a Doer I 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. Germs 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 Knoton 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 Debility, etc. It is harmless and pleasant in action. Its effects are permanent. It’s for you. for sale by all leading druggists, or ELLIS-LILLYBECK DRUG CO. MEMPHIS. TENN. I men who tried to steal bases am! is charged with having allow,<l 37 steals. Young Thomas, who not likely to be given a chance to y, v in the series, has flagged sou, n-n and his throw's have ben beaten eight times. From the subjoined list of p| a v. ers who have been thrown out bv : Hie Boston catchers this season fans may make up their own miiuh as to whether or not the Giants will be likely to ruu bases at will on Carrigan, Cady or Nunamaker. Victims of Carrigan. Chicago—Rath, 3; Lord. 3. Weav er, 2; Zeider, 2; Bodie, 1. Mattick. 1; Collins, 1; Fournier. 1 Mcln tyre, 1. New York—Zinn, 2; Dolan, 1; Hartzell, 1; Sterrett, I. Detroit—Cobb, 2; Jones, 1; (Taw ford, 2; Baumann. 2: Bush, 1; Del ahanty, 1; \ itt. 1; Louden. 1. Dea', 1; McDermott, 1. Philadelphia—Strunk. 3: D. Mur phy. 2; Oldring, 2; Collins, 1; Lord, 1; Barry. 1. St. Louis—Austin, 3; Shotten. 3; Pratt, 1: Williams, 1; Jantzen. 1. Washington— Flynn. 2; Morgan, 1; Gandil, 1; Foster, 1. Cleveland—La Joie, 1: Ryan, 1, Jackson, 1; Ball. 1. Griggs. 1. Victims of Cady, Chicago—Lord. 1; Callahan. 1; Bodie, 1; Rath. 1. New York—Chase, 1. Sterrett. 1 Detroit—Cobb, 1: Delehanty li Louden, 1; Jones, 1. St. Louis—Kutina. 2. Stovall. 1; Austin. 1; Stephens. I: Lai one. 1. Washington—Foster. 1: Mcßride, 1; Shanks, 1. Cleveland —Jackson, 1. Griggs. 1. Victims of Nunamaker. Chicago—Rath. 1; Zeider, 1. Lord. 1; Weaver. 1. I New York -Gardner. 1. Cree. 1. I Philadelphia—Mclnnes. 2 <'"i- I lins, 2: Baker. 1. 'I Washington—Moeller. 2. Milan. I . 1; Mcßride, 1; Knight, 1: Gunning- I ham. 1. I Cleveland-Ball, 1. Birmingham. I 1; Peckinpaugh. 1; Butcher, 1 I Victims of Thomas, I St. Louis—Pratt. 1. Shotten. 1: | Hogan, 1. Washington--Morin. 1