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8 gQ» CggP » ETI It’s a Cinch Mutt Doesn’t Care Much for the Styles of 1830 :: :: 7: By “Bud’Fisher ~ ~ AUG Coin' e^ CF . hgllc, MUTT. ) TH€ CVtSCiOP O P (830 some B€lN 6 WIFELESS, A Q ANO BRCAO r G<jV MAS To N\(x / f j WONDER | I 4 0t i lp „„ . ■• , WuECNASEO Yn.S mcnflu e, c , r iiT' ’ IT '^oo 40 ANO f \ VET? ~ ■■ -. i L../J \S& ■ O’ Mfe r WL- m [b £ JBw g|Wiir '"3%?' ■ l iHfc -‘ z // 1 I jr i - t’^si- ■ Boston Players Better in AH Departments, Opinion of "Old Fox" RED SOX WILL BEAT Cl ANTS, SAYS GRIFFITH By (’lark Griffith. (Manager of Washington Team, Which Will Probably Train in Atlants Next Spring.) T-S -y ASHINGTi IN Sept. 2'. The Boston 1. ,i Sox. one of the ■moot nt -1 t aseball ma - chines ever known, will, in my opinion, take foui out of ihe first five games from the New York Giants in the coming «<irl..'> >.t •<. Any way you look .it it. St;tiil’s men have McGraw's s> pisi i hacked off the baseball map. In the box, in tin field, and vith the stick, the Red Sox ate sttp-ior. tn base running alone tin ■ do not entirely outclass their opponents, and. ns I will show ’ater. this fea ture of the game does not cut much figure world series battles. The Giants have Just one pitcher In whom thex have sufficient con fidence to win such a series, name ly, Mathewson. The Red Sox have more confidence than any team I have ever come across, no matter who is in the box for them. And they sure have a staff that merits confidence. Wood. Hall. O Brien, Redlent and Collins are all equal to the task of facing the Giants at their hist and turning them back. True. McGraw has Marquard. but say what you wilt, the Giants do nnt play behind him as the) do with Matty. This old boy is still right up in the front rank, but he Is not as strong as he was a few yea: s ago. The constant strain of many seasons ha.® worn awax the ro serxe. and now. when Christy's best offerings are bump, d, he can not rely on she, r sp, ,d to recox er his equilibrium Wood and the other Boston stars can. and tin re n lies their invaluable advantage. 1 do not* think Marquard will bother the Aim'icati champions a little bit. while Tesreau. whom I have never seen, but xx ho, from all accounts, must be a real pitcher, has not had the experience to wand the terrific strain of such a seties. though he max come tlirougu and s trprise tr.e critics The same holds true in the case of Bedient for the Boston team. He is a grand twirler, but "Ruck" 1 ' Brian. on the othet hand, though young to the big league, has had the baseball experienc. to be.tr up against it. I expect, though, that the brunt of the pitching will fall on the shoulders of Hall and Wood The former Is a bear for work, does not know what it is to he afraid, and is at his beat in tight places The latter I consider to be equaled by only one man now pitching—Walter Johnson It would not surprise me a little bit tn see Joe Wood win three games In the first four days of the con tests. Speaker Will Hit Ball. Speaker, too. in my opinion, xx ill be another very great stumbling block for McGraw He will, | thint. be the first big star player who xx ill live up to hts previous eputation, and perhaps surpass it. tn a world’s series. • obb and Wagner and other headliners have faded and fallen down. but. take ft from me, ’ Spoke’’ will he there with bells on all the way through He is a natural ball Player, in the game for the love of it. and the bigger the crowd and the greater the excitement the bet ter lip goew. When Mathewson last pitched against Boston. Speaker bump- I him very hard, and in tlt.ee days the Bostonian was a liter, kid. Just breaking in, There’s no telling hat he is likely to ao now Boston Garden Much the Best. A» to the outfield, it | s useless to compare the grand Red Sox trio ®ith the < Hants' gardeners. The Boston bunch will make th. Nexx Yorkers look .-heap „|| . epart ments ..f the g.-,mr and tho-e thro, sterling wings will put a very sc- tere kink in the Giants' big repu tation for base running. I will not be surprised. either, to see Harry Hooper throw out Chief Meyers at first base on some of I hone hits that the Indian is ac customed to put to right Held In the infield, the advantage is all with the Red Sox. The Giants have one really classy infielder, Larry Doyle, while the rest are fair, but not real classy. tin the other hand, the Stahl in ner men are all stats Yeikts has been rather slow about coming along, but going at a pace he has been netting in the last couple of series he has worked against its, there are very few second sackers who have a thing on him. Stahl is a star, not a flashy play er, but a great asset at the bag, a dangerous hitter ami a brainy lead er. Wagner and Gardner are stellar performers, entirely superior to the wort esponding men on the National league leaders. In the backstopping department the Giants are thought by many to have the edge on nil the country, In the possession of Meyers. But for my part I fail to see where the Red Sox are at all weak. Either Carrigan or Cady will shape up all lite way through with Meyers, and while Wilson, the other New York receiver, is a fair man, he can not he compared with Nuna m.iker and Thomas. FODDER FOR FANS ' ' — . -- " ™ .-n.ju.rr .m —— ■ ■■■■ ———l ' esterdax’s nineteen - inning battle was a hard one for Eddie Plank to lose. He <»utpitched Groome and Johnson two to « one. ♦ ♦ * Hecruit Packard pitched swell ball for the U» ds against the Cubs in the first game <d a double-header. He downed the Chicago bunch 10 to 3 • • * Kirby, one of the Giant s new pitchers, after a bad start, pitched swell ball against the Doves yesterday A home run by Houser whh three on in the first inning netted the Boston team about all their tallies * • • The Neps sure gave the Tigers a fine trouncing. 16 to S Cleveland madi 21 hits, securing four of ’em in four times at bat. • * • Jennings used one of his recruits. Wheatly, on the mound, and gave the youngster his till. Hughey let him stick out the slaughter from start to finish. V * «• The Browns seems to have secured a corking young t wirier in Wellman He has shown fine work in the games he has pitched for St Louis. » » • Thu fag end of the season shows Marty O'Toole. Pittsburg's $22,500 hurler, going like atornado If lie had been gaolng all season like he is now the Pirates might have won the National league bunting * * ♦ <’harle> Ebbets has been blocked in his CALLAWAY AND SMITH IN WASHINGTON FOR PLAYERS WASHINGTON, D. Sept. 28 President F'rank E. Callaway and Man ager Billy Smith, of the Atlanta Base ball association, arrived here this morn ing They are the guests of Manager ■ t’lark Griffith, of the local American league team, and will endeavor to se cure some talent for the Crackers of IDl.'i Griffith and his team returned home today and opened up a series with Bos ton There are several pPtmi.-ing young sters on both lite Boston and Washing ton teams that Smith has a lino on, and by tonight they may lie Crackers. The d" al for Joe Agler Is the first one that will probably In closed. YOUNG SAYLOR AN EASY WINNER OVER PHILLIPS . GAYToN <>Hlt>, Sept 28 Young iSa\ or of Indianapolis, proved an easy omm-rov. Joe Pli.liips of Providence. R 1 ■ In thep twelve-round bout In e " ,sl t lgl’t. Siylor fought a cool and craft' fight and outpointed Phillips at all stag. - in the s. mi-windup Jo. Hartman. <.f • cs-’and. gained tL» <D« <»\ci ' Freddie Ap'.rew -of M waukev. after 1. ght rounds of fast fighting. ' THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) YEWS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1912. Base running, as I said earlier, cuts very little figure in champion ship contests, for the very simple reason that when a man gets on bases he is not willing to take any risks. In batting, too, you have to hand the palm to the American leaguers. Not a man on the team, pitchers included, but is likely to break up any game, at any time, against any kind of pitching. The Giants have a few danger ous hitters, but not .an entire team of fatality bangers, and as they will be up against superior pitch ing it’s mighty hard to see just how they can wiggle through to a victory. The Red Sox. as a whole, are a more nervy bunch than the Giants and much less likely to be discour aged by a lead held against them in the first part of the game. The team is made up of brainier players, who do not need to look to one man for their every plan or play. The Giants depend upon McGraw, primarily, and all the way through. The Red Sox depend upon Stahl, more or less, but each man is for himself a board of strategy when time and place call for brilliant in dividual effort. Wherefore, as 1 have said several times already, they ought to have no bother coming through, in easy style, and copping out in the first fi v e da y s scheme to purchase the Newark Interna tional league t’ranchise Joe McGinntty claims that the club owes him SB,OOO on a note After Ebbet s prive had been a<- cepted McGinnlty flashed this note and the Brooklyn magnate refused to take it up. • • • Fred Clarke hits refused to let Byrne and O'Toole go witli t’mpire Rigler's picked team to Cuba The Pirate man ager declares that the risk of injuhy on such a trip is too dangerous. • * • Washington appears to have a strangle hold on second place in the American league. Houston, pennant winners in the 'Texas league, have just finished a post-season series with Beaumont. Lexas league tail enders. and Beaumont vs on. « * ■ Wichita and Sioux City set a new record n run-getting in the Western league a tew days ago Wichita scored 2k runs and Sioux City an even dozen. • • • Before night a report from Washington is due Dial Joe Agler has been ofticialb sold' back to the ('rackets. Billy Smith and President Gallaway arrived in the capital this morning. * • • \ Detroit scribe says the Boston team this season is not in the same class with the Athletics of last year Connie Mack, however, claims the Red Sox are evet v bit as good as his 1911 champions. SOLDIERS AT LOCAL FORT PROVE CLEVER ATHLETES Etithustasm and a good crowd mark ed the field day exerclsea held at Fort Mil'luison yesterday morning. Pri vates Franz and Campbell won the 10*. and the 220-yard dashes, respectively Tlie results of tile five competitit. events were as follows: lofl-Yard Dasti Franz, first. Camp bell. second: Stewart, third. Time, 11 1-5 seconds Dog Tent Pitching Contest Compa ny H. first; Company !•’. second; Com pany N, third Time, 5 minutes and 4(1 aei< mdH. 220 Yard Dash Campbell, first; Bo no, second; Reem. third Time. 27 sec onds Wall Staling Contest t'mnpany I. train, first. Company K second, anti Company 1., third. Time, 22 2-5 sec ond s. Tug of Wat \\ naj br the Third bat talion in seven minutes s-ARANGING BIG GAME. <’t>Ll’Mßl’S GA. Sept. 2v R \\ Ear tifi. id, i epr. s. ntmg Met i er" unive - sity. ami G R Yaugltn, representing Vuburn, art- in Columbus arranging for lie annua football game between these two college* w hi. h w m be playt<l in Columbus Octobet 5. Efforts are being operate special Cains from N'tbu’n and Macon to bring th* stu- I lent »>.• !. rrf those institutions hme on that date to witness the game. I Giants' Call to Wood By WILLIAM F. KIRK. Come on. Joe Wood. Show us your wares. And don’t forget to bring them all, For speed alone gains you no throne— The Giants love that old fast ball. Whatever goes into the air Must fall again—remember that; And all the speed'that is your creed May meet a heavy Giant bat. Don t think we do not know your worth; Don t think we sneer at your success Os men like you there is a dearth. But TeMreatis better—that’s our guess. rhe Red Sox pin their faith on you, And we acknowledge that you’re good, But let us see you put it through. Come on. Joe Wood! SENATORS CAPTURE A 19 INNING BATTLE FROM MACK’S MEN PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28.—Wash ington and Philadelphia, in battling for second place, broke the major league record for this season when they played IS Innings hero yesterday, the former winning. 5 to 4. I he visitors scored four runs in the first two innings on five hits, two bat ter.' and fielding errors and a fielder’s choice. After that Plank held them to no runs and six hits for sixteen suc cessive innings. In the nineteen Williams received a base on balls and Johnson beat out a bunt Williams was forced at third on Moeller's grounder. Poster forced Moeller at second. Barry to Collins. In trying for a double play. Collins threw wild and Johnson .scored the winning run. Groom pitched the first nine innings for Washington. Twice with the bases filled scoring was prevented by double plays, and in the seventh, with the bases tilled and one out, the home team scored on. an out. Four hits and an er. ror in the ninth enabled Philadelphia to tie the score. Johnson, who took Groom's place it the tentli inning, was hit harder that; Plank, but brilliant fielding, especially by Foster and Mcßride, prevented anj scoring. Plank, a veteran of twelve seasons, out-twirled both of his younger oppo nents. the majority of Washington’s runs being due to misplays. LOOKOUT PRESIDENT HAS GOOD IDEAS FOR LEAGUE NEXT YEAR CHATTANOOGA. TENN., Sept. 28. President O. B. Andrews, of the local baseball club, will go on record at the fall meeting as supporting the present salary and player limits. He desires, however, that the salary be graded. In other words, if only fifteen men ar« carried he is of the opinion that S2OO should be subtracted from the total salary limit of that club. His idea is to prevent ambitious managers from sacrificing quantity for quality and thus rendering the final determination of the. pennant winner largely a matter of luck. This is ever the ease when clubs at tempt to go through a season upon an inadequate number of men. "If this provision Is included,” says President Andrews, "I am of the opinion that the present player and salary limits are all right.” 1 am heartily in favor of the double umpiring system," states the local pres ident. and I will do all in my power to have it retained next season. The sin gle system, to mj notion, is a matter of poor economy." "One matter that I intend to insist upon." says President Andrews, "is a provision to force all the home clubs to provide club houses for the visiting teams. I believe that his change would be to the mutual benefit of all in volved. it will be found that the sat ing on the road by every team will more than offset the slight cost of the extra club house, not to mention the added convenience for the players ” M'GOORTY AND GIBBONS SIGN. NEW Yt'RK. Sept 28.—Announce ment was made through the Garden Athletic i lub todav that Eddie MeGnor ty. of ushko-h. has signed up to meet Mike Gibbons of St Paul, for , ten round bout Thursday night, Novem ber 7. I Even Money Should Prevail on Giants-Red Sox Seven-Game Fight ODDS ON WORLD’S SERIES STRUGGLE ARE FALSE By Bill Bailey. ARE they preparing to pull one of the biggest betting coups in the history of baseball in New York this fall? Early stories from the home of the Giants indicate as much. Be cause they sure are quoting false odds at this stage of the game. You read the stories that come from Gotham and they tell you that the Red Sox are the favorites in the world’s championship games. AH well and good. You know that Jake Stahl has a pretty likely bunch of young ball players and you stand for that. But when they tell you that the odds are length ening and that the Red Sox will be 2 to 1 favorites before the first game is played you have a right to call a halt. Because the series never was played in which either contestant was a 2 to 1 favorite. Odds Arg False. It’s all right to have a favorite. And it’s all right to believe that your favorite will win. And it’s also all tight to back your favorite to the extent of offering $5 of your money to win $4 of the other fel low’s. But it doesn’t make any dif ference how strong your favorite seems and how weak the other fel lows appear when it comes to wagering real money your pride is never a 2 to 1 shot. Certainly not in a series that calls for four out of seven games If the Red Sox were playing the Braves Stahl's men would not be 2 to 1 favorites. If the Giants were contesting with the Yanks they would not be 2 to 1 favorites. If the winners of the American McGRAW PRAISES WORK OF PITCHER AL DEMAREE NEW YORK. Sept. 28.—Manager Mc- Graw, of the New York Giants, is grooming his men for the world series with the Boston Americans. With the pennant race won, the recruits will he given tlie brunt of the work for the remainder of the season’s play, while the veterans rest in relays, playing just enough to keep in good condition. It is seldom that McGraw discusses tlie initial work of his young players but he sai l today the debut of Al Dem aree the Southern league star, in the box against Boston Thursday was the finest work he had seen done by a newcomer in twenty years of baseball. it was Demaree’s first appearance sot the Giants, and, although the game was c: tidal to the extent that winning it meant clinching the pennant, the youngster had almost perfect control He struck out nine men. allowed seven hits, two of which were scratches, gave only one base on balls, and scored » shut-out. Demaree reported to tlie Giants on September 4. a week too late to be eligible for the world’s championship series Tesreau is being groomed par ticularly for "spitball" pitching against the Red Sox. and Mathewson and Mar quard probably will each have a chance t<» start one of the Big gamp?. CHAS. EBBETS HAS NEW SCHEME FOR DRAFTING NEW YGRK, Sept. 28. A new meth od of drafting baseball players for class AA leagues will be recommended to the national commission at its next regu lar meeting bv President C. H. Eb betts of the Brooklyn club. Hr de clares that the present “grab bag" plan is unfair alike to the weak major league clubs which need new material and to the good minor league players, who fail to graduate into fast companv Ebbetts’ plan is as follows: "Let the American league, for in stance, take the odd numbers 1 3 5 etc., for each club, while tlie National' league dubs are numbered 2. 4 6 etc • assign these numbers according to the order in which the teams finish alive numtier 15 and number is, the I tail-end class, first chance at all p,av- ! ers subject to draft. Thus each teal 1 will haw an excellent chance to secure desirable talent, and will not be com pelled to take players that are not' really needed " BURNS DEFEATS GOKUON VINITA. OKLA. Sept 28. Burns, of Indianapolis, won a nopula decision nv.'t Bart Gordon. '*f Rartels d i". Okla., in a fifteen-round bout here. league were stacked against the tail-enders of the National they would not be 2 to 1 favorites. If the winners of the National league pennant were sent against the fel lows who finished eighth in the American league they would not be a good 2 to 1 bet. In a series of seven games no major league team is ever a 2 to 1 favorite when stacked against another major league team. Think that over. It's a fact. Even Money Suitable Wager. Even money should prevail in this series between the Giants and the Red Sox. The fellows who like the Boston crew against the New Yorkers immediately point to the fact that the Giants had a lot of difficulty in winning the pennant. Perish the thought. They had nothing of the sort. They won the pennant last year by seven and one-half games. Today they have a longer lead. They are having no greater trouble this year than they had last. The fact of the matter is that you simply have for gotten that the Cubs were in the race until almost the last moment last year. Then the fellow who likes the Red Sox says that the fact that Stahl’s men defeated the Athletics when the Giants could not, proves that the Red Sox form a better team than the one which licked the Giants In the world's championship games of 1911. It proves nothing of the sort. The way you have to figure that proposition is in this way: Would the Red Sox have beaten the Ath letics if Bender had been as good this year as he was last? Also, I he Big Race Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on how the “Big Five” batters of the American league are hitting: PLAYERS. A.B. H Av "ck’son .".".".:: ts s? SHAKER 561 Ji: S rm?ixic 417 148 - 355 GOLLINS 508 171 .337 Ty Cobb secured two hits in four times up yesterday. Jackson was up three times and connected for safe swats each time. Speaker didn't play. Lajoie had a big day: was up four times and banged out as many hits. Collins went to bat seven times and three times he hit safely. FAST PACER IS DEAD. (’OLI’MBUS. OHIO, Sept. 28.—One of the fastest pacers in the world. The Eel, 2:02 1-4 owned bv F. \V. Ent’e kin. of Travistock, Ontario, died here from an attack of lung fever. He had been entered in the championship pac ing stake at the Grand Circuit races here. Money x\nywhere You May Be The convenience and comfort you experi ence when you carry your travel-money in the orm of our Travelers Checks will amply com pensate you for supplying yourself with them. i^F^ C T arc ca ®kahle in any country in the wor a. You have no trouble about identifica n IjY°- U canoot lose your money even if you should misplace your check. Al! forms of foreign and domestic ex change are supplied by our Exchange Depart ment. Letters of credit issued. Fourth National Bank would the Red Sox have triumphed had Coombs been right when air tight pitching was needed? And on top of that, would the men Stahl have fin'shed on top if both Bender and Coombs had been right at the same time? If you believe that the fellow? from Boston would have won de spite Bender and Coombs in good shape, all well and good. Then you have a basis for arguing that the Red Sox should be the favorites. Until you can satisfy yourself of that point you have no reason f>r making the lads from Boston the favorites In the W’agering. To further prove that the Red Sox should be the favorites you may cite the fact that Christy Mathewson is not the pitcher that he was last year and that the same holds good for Marquard Which may and may not hold good. Math ewson. with a rest, will probably be able to twirl some mighty good ball in the world’s series. Don’t ever get the impression that he is all in He isn’t. Marquard may not be the twirler that he was one year ago today. It will be remembered that he was going his fastest clip during the latter part of the 1911 season But the Giants have a man in Tes reau who is mote than likely to make up for any deficiency dis played by the southpaw. Giants in Big Fight Before. Then the Giants have the advan tage of having been in a worlTA series and that counts for a whole' lot. It will come nearer being an every-day occurrence for the Giants than it will be for the Red Sox. That counts. WHITE SOX ACCEPT DEFI OF CUBS FOR CITY SERIES CHICAGO. Sept. 28. President Co miskey, of the Chicago American leagut club, has accepted the challenge of President Murphy, of the Chicago Na tionals, for a series of games to decide the baseball championship of Chlcagn- Details will be arranged today. "Were al! medicines as meritorious as Chamberlain's Colic, cholera and Diarrhoea R‘medy the world would D< much better off and the percentage nl suffering greatly decreased," writes ' Indsav Scott, of Temple. Ind F"' sale by all dealers. (Advt) NOTICE. September 16, 1912. The annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Atlanta and West Point Rail road Company will be held at the office of the company, room 9 in the At lanta Terminal Station, Atlanta. Ga.. at 12 o’clock noon, Tuesdav, October 15. 1912. W. H. BRUCE. Secretary. (Advertisement.)