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14 ®OHH SroWtMB * EXEKM He’d Have Said the Same if She Had Asked for Hooks or Books Great Britain Rights' ReserverJ Pan ‘ By “Bud” Fisher —•• , _ ' I cS? C -? G Vou A Ttj * kU ” HF ,4> ' rtx> —> ive 9OU4HT nils) YOU see 1 KIN *;s, Onl * ’ rß '* l ',***6*A߀l<.. -NOW A K- PfOCE OF JiLK HAS '^ r HATTAPE LIFF FOR. .s<t ANO UP ON ACCOUNT OF THE TREMBLE ,I|j , i gMSJfg ’““'O' <__ L?‘ L6XA * < ' ne^’’ > k making •;- 7o Ym j ' mS« ’ 1 f i qv.tTi SHOWING A t X x\TNt SurpLX OF 3»UK < . Z let ' <——- L LAOY GONtG SILK L, SHOR.T A Y> H W SNQ r J ;) Jm F-J=- '• - H —1 /"” 'X f '! \ ■ Hi fWo IMW J s’W* ■ ? SsF i x£ A M~. W^ r -‘ ; -W-- ♦ i ErW® - t> -■ |U- «IW- I.M ' Wan • ii ;' !i i/J M > F _ Er L r 1— <1 II ipwim 1 i i: ■■ ■ , t - 'sfe , J3W 1 i OSS" -’■-' 1 11 . A-- i ■■ MF- Sup .■ ■ / / TiJxr 1 r : F r ' ' Tesreau—Thaf s Why Giants Have a Look-in, Says Tinker By Joseph B. 'l inker. Acting Manager Chicago Cubs. C'AHICAGQ, Oct. I Big” Jeff Tesreau. the spltball pitch t. looms up as the hope of the tii.Hits ill their series with tlie Heil Sox for a world’s championship. If Tesreau fails to come through I can see no hope for McGraw's men. If Tesreau does come through, th>n the Giants will -tittid an ex cellent chance of winning the xxorld’s champ -mshlp Mathewson max pitch a good game. Marquuitf. In my estima tion, isn't likely to. But Tesreau is the key to success when viewed from the standpoint of the New Yorkers. Here is the way I look at that series between the Giants and the Red Sox: I do not believe that the Giants have a chance to win if many runs are scored. In that event the Red Sox will surely have the better of the argument. But if Tesreau can hold the Red Sox, then his pals will have a chance. if I were managing the Giants I would start Tesreau In the first game, with one proviso, ami that would he this: If Tesreau can go In there and pitch in a world's cham pionship series without being over come by nervousness lie is the log lea’ pitcher. Now no one saie Manager McGraw is In a position to determine whether the big fel low is likely to sufft-t from stage fright or whether he is of tin tem perament which will make it possi ble for him to g > in there and pitch his best with the large crowd pres ent and the stake a world's ciiam plonshlp. Tesreau May Start Series. If McGraw figures that Tesreau can pitch his best article of ball re gardless of the stake, then he Is the man to start in the first game I have a most wholesome respect foi the pitching staff of .lake Stahl. . I do not believe that the Giants are going to hammer that ball to all corners of th Jot and score a lot of I runs That is the reason that 1 make Tesreau the hinge upon which victory or defeat w ill swing Because if it comes to a series of games in which runs tire scarce I t-sreau is the man who w ill have to cat’y the New York club Math ewson j« smart He is experienced. Ho can go out there and pitch the kind of ball we call "heady " But whether he is the factor tn bo de pended upon in several games of a series lik< the one which decides a world's series is a question in my mind. Marquard has displayed little since he won his nineteen straight. 1 do not figure him an Impo taut factor in the world's championship Regardless of how you attempt to figure that series, you must get right back to the fact that Tcs reau. the recruit, is the big factor f'om the New York end. Now. if Tesreau can pitch that first game and win it the chances of the Giants a e very bright. Be cause Tesreau is a giant in phys ique and a glutton for w <>rk In a rest width he is certain to haxe bofo’e it begins, be could go on the mound ami piti h foui 01 fix. games in a roxx The eham -es of the Giants in this serii s are consid erably lessened by the fact that Tesreau is a recruit arid a xung ster. 1 think lie possesses tin nat ural ability to hold his own in any series of games lam judging Ids worth by what he has displayed against us this season . Mo’e Than Base Running Needed. It is all well and good to talk about tlie base-running ability of tile Giant- They can run bases i and that's admitted. But then Is a I I saying in baseba : that you can't ‘teal first 1,,,, Before you . ; , n run tho r base you have tn reach first And.the only wax you can do that to any extent is by hitting the, hall. My opinion of the Boston pitching staff, gained t om reading and from hearing hall players talk. Is that the men are mighty effect ive and not likely to allow many of of Hie opposing team to get on. That is tlie reason that I place so much emphasis on Tesreau. Be cause If the Boston pitchers hold and keep the Giants off the bases it naturally follows that the New York twirlers also must be good and keep the Boston men off the paths. An ( | Tesreau Is the man to do it if it can he done. Tesreau may emerge a hero and be may come out with a reputation considerably soiled. Just the same, at this stage of the game he seems like the big hope. Mathewson’.- fast ball isn't work ing like it did in years gone by. Ho max pitch wonderful ball after a rest. But since I am risked to size up the situation ns it appeals to me al the present time, I must do it in these words: In my opinion the Boston pitch ers will hold the Now York batters. That means that the New York pitchers must hold the Boston bat ters. Mathewson's experience. his heady pitching, rr.ay be a big as set, but it's my opinion that Tes reau, the youthful giant, is the man who will have to do it. Therefore, I pick the i , i uit as tlie most valuable man tlie New Yorkers possess in this series tor a world's championship and claim tiiat he is the man upon w hoin the < Hants must base most of their hop.. KETCHEL DOWNS KILBANE; WANTS WOLGAST’S GAME WINNIPEG. MAN. Oct I.—Steve Ketchel, of Chicago, decisively defeated Tommy Kllbane, of Cleveland, here last night in a twelve-round contest. Ketchel had every round to Ids credit and was selected by the National Sport ing .lull here to meet Champion Ad Wolgaat in the very near future. Al though Kllbane pul up a classy tight, lie was up against too strong a boy. Ketchel scored a knockdoxvn over the Cleveland boy in the seventh round. IF MANDOT IS WHIPPED HE LOSES DALY CITY GO SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. I.—Despite the fact that Wolgast and Mandot have signed for a battle at New Orleans No x ember 2, ('•■fftoth is going ahead w ith plans f.> their battle nt Daly City I lianksgiring day In case Mandot f.« decisively bejiten by the champion, a new opponent is to fie found, probable " illie Ritchie or Frankie Burns ■“ I. ... «. THE BASEBALL CARD. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. B*> con in Washington New York in Philadelphia Standing of the Clubs. " L PC W L. PC Boston 10-’ is .IS'. ("land 72 77 »J 4 Wash. Sl' GOl Detroit i>9 SO iti.t Pllilu. Xs till . s- Louis '*s 7'7 < "In. ago 7 4 7498 X York 49 99 Yesterday's Results Philadelphia I'l Nt xx York 10 Boston 7. Washington 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Brooklyn in Boston Philadelphia in New York Pittsburg m Chicago Cincinnati in St Louis Standing of the Clubs wti<- wipe; X lork 101 45 p)|j|g ;o 77 47,; I P’burg 9l .-»7 ,6t.’> s Louis 02 xs 41" | ICI lira go. ys 1:05 Hr'klyn 7.7 -.1 ns:, ■ I C nati 71 70 I'-.t Boston is 100 "24 I - Yesterday's Results Xrw York 1 Pbiladel: h.i 2 I '.it <h'irg 9. < 'hi. ag.. r Brookiy n r. Rnstor ■’* I St L"iii- 5, ' ineinnat. l IHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN .WI) NEAVS-TCKSDA Y. OCTOB ER 1.1912. Fight Fans Lose Interest Under New York System NO DECISION BOUTS HAVE HURT BOXING GAME By Ed. W. Smith. CHICAGO, ILL.. Oct. I.—Per haps the loss of interest in the boxing game, now so no ticeable in New York contests, may be traced to tho no-decision system that prevails there. The system gives the fighters plenty of leeway. There is little chance for a dent in reputations if a man can stick the ten rounds and there is a good chance that a friendly critic or two might be Induced to give him an even break, thus enhancing his chances of getting other bouts There is a false ring about the whole thing that isn't pleasing. In bouts where decisions are giv en it is an absolute certainty that the fighters will do their level best. Knowing that the contest is to go to a referee's decision, the fans naturally will feel more concern and interest In such a meeting than they would In a contest in which they feel that one man could stall pretty much all the way through without seriously hurting his reputation. Even Title Contests Fail to Draw. New York is complaining of the f 1 The Big Race j He eis the up-to-the-minute dope °n Show the "Big Five” batters of the American league are hitting: PLAYERS— AB. H. AV. COBB 545 222 .408 JACKSON 556 218 .392 SPEAKER 568 217 .382 LAJOIE 425 149 .351 COLLINS 521 174 .334 Only two members of the exclusive "Big Five” played ball yesterday— Speaker and Collins. Each man made a single hit, but Speaker had only three times at bat, while Collins was five times up. TICKETS FOR SERIES WILL SOON BE ISSUED NEW YORK, oct 1. At National league headquarters Secretary John A Heydler is busy preparing his list of preferred patrons, including organized baseball officials, season box holders and authorized major league newspa per men. He announced that this list xvould be closed promptly at 6 p. in. to day. and that no applications for res ervations after that hour would be con sidered. These preferred patrons are to be a< - eonimodated at the three-dollar rate in tlie upper tier of the grandstand, and after the list lias been deducted from tlie S.OOO seats available in that sec tion. the remainder is to be placed on public sale in advance. The time and place for this sale probably xvill be announced on Thursday, said Mr Hevd ler Tlie rest of 30.000 seats at the Polo grounds can bo bought only at the grounds on the days of the games. SEWANEE OPENS SEASON WITH PREP GAME OCT. 9 SEWANEE, TENN. Oct 1. The 'first game of the Sewanee football sea son will he played with Morgan Prep 1 school on October 9, at Sewanee As it looks noxv. the line-up for this contest will be somethin- like this: Stoney or .MacCallmti, center; Dalton. Mai Callum or Stoney, guard- Mag wood. Moore or Ham. la, kies. Gill* in Mi t 'lellehnn or Eggleston, ends Tolley or Hammond, quarter. Parrish. Gilles pit Sheldon or Parker, backs. Practice has been going on for over two weeks now. and the prospects are bettei than they have been for years. <'ope has over forty men out each aft ernoon With tin exception of Movers. Eckert and Gillette, all the old va sity men have returned to college HEDGES TO LOOSEN UP: BROWNS TRAIN IN TEXAS SI l.lil'lS. Oct. | President Hodge-, of the St Louis Brown-. >is announced tiiat hf« team will t ain next spring at Wat*’. Texas, and that p.: tho negotiations for the trip to tic lame St.i stat> had been cmpleted. small houses and hence the boxers are not so eager as they were to perfoim there. Even championship contests with a strong international flavor are not doing well in Gotham town. Eddie McGoorty didn't get fat financially through his feat of whipping the Australian and Brit ish stars. Dave Smith and Jack Harrison. On paper and in ad vance better bouts than these could hardly have been asked for. Yet they’ didn’t draw. The mid dleweights, it is true, received sev eral black eyes in recent bouts in New York because of the sheer mediocrity of their performances. And this same Eddie McGoorty was one of those who contributed to the genual feeling of disgust at the middleweights because of his so called indifferent showing with Bob Moha, the Milwaukee strong man. But this should have been forgotten when Dave Smith land ed here and later when the English champion. Harrison, came here with a flourish of trumpets and was acclaimed one of the best Great Britain has sent here in a P FODDER FOR FANS ] When the Reds departed last from , Chicago they carried a new man with them, Albert Kuhn. He v.as a product of the back lots of Chicago. ’ Jim Delehanty baited . 4."8 this season. Mauling the pill is a family characteris- ! tie with the Delehantys ♦ » » A tine lot of \oungsters are found in i the select hatting circle in the American association, such juveniles as Corriden. Rossman, Darr. Clymer, Altizer. Hulswitt 1 and the rest. i ♦ ♦ • i Capron, the former college wonder, manag'd to hit 281 with St Paul. • • • Left banders have had small success a gains i the Red Sox this year 'l* he Sox have won 17, lost !♦ and lied 1 against the performers of the southpaw persua sion. j Wonder hon Charley Murph.x will come out in his effort to clamp prohibition on . his Cubs Frank Chance says it’s all rot and that players should be allowed to drink, in moderation, lie does not, how ever. go on to give a definition of the word "moderation.” Howard Camnit;; will lead a band of Pirate barnstormers through Pennsyl vania and < >hio after the season ends. I I’he trip will last as long ;ts the money | does. • • * Don’t count too strongly on Jeff Tes reau for the world’s series. He’s just bought a new yellow automobile. Victor Munoz has the honor of being the first snorting editor on the, job for the worlds’ series Up landed in New York several days ago from Havana He picks the Giants. Also he pays 5 cents a word to get his stories back to his paper. • • ♦ Mark t item; Boston Common is re ported strong. • • • The Battle Creek Normal school of Ph\sic.il Education, which has dropped football because the beastly game's bru tal. still clings to basebail. • ♦ • Answer: Xnxious—Yes, yes. We are pinking the Red Sox. 3’herefore. go bet on the Giants with tlie full assurance that you can't be far wrong • • • Ever\ l>od\ in the Southern league wants i to see Al Demaree make good, but few I believe that he will. Somehow. Al isn’t j our notion of a rcallx great pitcher Mik< I’onlin has taken to Christian; Science He says that it saved his wife’s life when she was so sick in the summer, and he’s converted. It 11 do him good, too, no doubt. • • • Pilcher \1 Klawitter, who was drafted from Portland by Detroit, says lie would r.-iher do any tiling on earth except pitch, lie claims tiiat lie played several games at short for Knaupp last year and subbed so well tiiat tlie official scorer took him tor the real thing and credited fourteen hits out of fifteen times up to "Knauppv." • • , Lelivelt finished second among tlie reg ular pitchers of tlie Ameriian associa tion Ulis year. That's marvelous, con sidering tiiat lie was always nowhere or worse in the Southern league Glenn Liebhardt could not manage to win half his games this year with .Min neapolis • • • Frank Dessau, over whose departure i here was so mini' moaning last season, managed io win but two games out of seven for Kansas Ci'.', and was n»xt to la.' among tj-.e American association pit< hers. long time. But the New York fans seem to be tired or something else is wrong with the whole situation. It's a fact, however, that the box ing game, in common with many other sports, needs to be rested up for a time. The promoters there have been running it summer and winter, and it is small vvonder that even the most attractive of cards falls far below the expected mark when the dollars are counted. Billy Papke made his first ap pearance of the season against Jack Denning in New York the other night and as a majority of the re ports say that Billy worked pretty well against his seasoned opponent we are forced to take that view of it. It looks xery much as if Papke is the only one of the middle weights who will be given a coun try-wide chance against Eddie Mc- Goorty noxv in the race for the middleweight title. And as Papke intends to go to Paris jn a short time under the management once more of Al Lippe, there is but a slim chance of seeing these two good fighters together. Horace Fogel tries to be a press agent of the Charley Murphy stamp, but lie does not do it as well. His charge tiiat the umpires deliberately handed the pennant tc tlie Giants is so ridiculous that it hardly stirred a breeze in sporting i circles. • « « Fans in Ruston :re already staking out camping sites when they will squat while waiting for th** daily sale of tickets to begin. • * ♦ Fred Clarke has signed a 1913 contract with the Pirates—which was rather to it a e been expected. • • • After refraining for years to protest, an umpire. August Herrmann has landed on one. The object of his wrath was Empire Finneran. He put Player Egan nut of a recent game for bad language Herrmann says he can prove that Fln neran used worse language than Egan • • V Head in big league paper: "Chance Done as Leader of the Chicago Outfit." Query;' "Done what'."’ * * * Josh Devore, tlie "diamond king " of the big leagues, went into Diamond John's place in New York the other day. just looking around. John had a stomacher I he han picked up at a pawnbroker's sale, jlt was about 4 inches by 6. and con tained samples of all the known precious 1 stones. "Here. " said Diamond John, hu morously, "is sumpin' nice for your scarf. Josh." Mr. Devore inspected it gravely. "That would be a grand piece of junk to keep your chin up with. John," he asserted, but ain’t you afraid some i folks might call it loud?" * • • Hank was recently interviewed, is follows: "I have nothing to say. I’ve said it all before." He did finally admit, though, that it was easier to manage than to be an umpire. ATLANTA SOCCER CLUB TO MEET OCTOBER 3 Tlie Atlanta soccer football club xvill hold a melting at their headquarters. A. G Spalding & Bros . 74 North Broad street. October 3. at which time offi cers xvill lie elected for the ensuing y ear and plans discussed for the season. The question of forming a football league for soccer players will be dis- I cussed. A league is now organized in I the East, covering, the entire section and I the West. The local players propose to j organize such a league in the South and have it a member of the American as sociation. The local club won all of its games last season, and with many more clubs and colleges taking up the game this year it expects to play many games this fall. BALL PLAYER FOUND DEAD: GAS TURNED ON IN ROOM POTTSVILLE. PA., Oct. I.—Michael Sheridan, formerly a pitcher on the Pottsville team of the Atlantic league and later with the New York State league and tried out by the Athletics, was found dead in a suburban hotel. The gas in tlie loom was turned on. but death is believed to have been acci dental. Your vote and influence is solicited for R. M. Clay ton for Chief of Construc tion. Boston Kids Build Tunnel to Get Into Red Sox Ball Park By Bill Bailey. Boston, mass., oct. I.—Did you ever stop to wonder what happened to the old-fashioned kid who shinned up over the fence at the ball park and saw the game for nothing? You know the type. Maybe h" happened to have a quarter in his pocket. But it didn't got for a ticket. The chances were that he had nothing but a longing desire to see that ball game, some well muscled toes tiiat made it easy for him to climb the highest board fence ever built, and the most guile less face that was ever put on a youngster. He could look innocent when you knew he was guilty and prove his innocence if you gave him a chance, and maybe swear at you if you in sisted that he get out. • ♦ « old-fashiom d kid is still in existence and doing business at tlie same old stand. The fact that they' built ball parks of bricks and concrete and have walls of brick and stone didn't interfere with him He passed out of your existence because you been me prosperous enough to sit in the grandstand. But he is among those present at every ball game. Here is one that Robert Mcßoy was telling. Mcßoy, you know, was formerly the secretary of the American league. Last winter lie purchased an interest in the Bos ton Red Sox. "Don t ever get tlie impression that the concrete and the brick walls make any difference to the kids." said Mcßoy. “They'll get in all right. Tim only difference is that they have kept pace with the times and in stead of going ox er tlm fences when they are difficult to climb they go under." "T unnel ?" u’J’I NNEL is right. J was stand ing a short distance from the general admission gates one Sat urday afternoon xvhen I saw the GEORGIA ELEVEN READY FOR GAME A FHENS, GA.. Oct. 1. — Bowden, left end; Harrell, left tackle; Malone, left guard; Henderson or Wood, center: Lucas, right guard; Peacock (captain), right tackle; Parrish, right end; Cov ington. quarter back; McWhorter, right half: Paddock, left half; Wheatley, full back. This in ail probability will be tlm line-up tiiat Coach Cunningham xvill put on the field for the first game of the season with the Cniversity of Chat tanooga here Saturday. Paddock, Wheatley and Henderson are the only new faces that appear. The other men saw serviee on last season's eleven. The Georgia team expects a ptvttv stiff game from tlie Tennesst eans, inu Cunningham will take no chances by sending in anything but his lust eleven at the start of tlie game. MURPHY MAKING PLANS TO GO OUT AS SCOUT PHILADELPHIA. Oct. I.—Danny Murphy, captain of the Athletics, prob ablx never w ill be able to play baseball again, but he will retain his connection with the Athletics in the capacity of a scout, it lias become known that the accident Murphy had at Chicago has left him with a stiff leg. Connie Mack acknowledged today that it d-d not seem likely thru Murphy will be able tn play ground suddenly give way and go down. “A heavy rain had just fallen and I supposed that it was respon sible for the caye-ln. Pretty soon I saw a pair of hands emerge and grasp at the sinking ground. Then ■ t dawned on me. A kid had tun neled his way into the ball park. "Well, we got busy right away. We ran outside and found the en trance to the tunnel. We plugged this and told the lads that the jig xx as up. Pretty soon they began to emerge. There were seven of them there and we lined them up “ 'There's three more in there,' hoxvled one of the youngsters. Tlie xvords were scarcely out of hi mouth when another of the young sters swung on him. Which gm s to show that it doesn’t pay to be even a young informer. "We yelled and shouted at the three, but they xvouldn-'t come out So xve got a hose, turned on the water, swished ft in that tunnel a few times, and out they came. ♦ ♦ ♦ J HEN xve began an fnvestig - tion. We have a board walk outside of the entrance, and this continues for a short distance aft er you get in the park. It was easy for them to tunnel under this. I suppose they tunneled a dislam 1 of five feet after leaving the walk They had a hole there that w s plenty- large enough for a young ster to crawl through on all fours It xxas too near the surface, how ever. and the heavy rain caused the cave-in which resulted in tin detection. 3 hose kids «tfll go over the fence. Mcßoy told one story of a bunch of youngsters who climbed the side of the new grandstand. Some of his companions went the distance, hut one follow got to a position xchere he couldn't go <-n and lie < ouhln't come dow n. Th--y rescued him with the aid of lad ders. So the old-fashioned kids haven't disappeared. They're still getting in without paying tlieir way, and the baseball men have an idea tiiat they always will. TEAMS NEED MEN TO MiX ’EM UP. SAYS YOST ANN ARBOR. MICH.. Ort. I.—"A quarterback who knows how tn mix ‘ plays and can open up the game when h< needs to will do a lot for the team unde» the new rules.” said Coach Fielding ¥•»<• recently. "A straight plunging game will not rnd a hea,vy team will n<»i have the ad vantage that so many seem to think “of course, the unrestricted forward pass will help a lot. but a proper mix ture of the «>bl si vie plunging tactics I the newer open game will product the re sult. "Four downs will help a lot. but y"'t slid have two ami a half yards to gain a down, and under the old rules thee were many times that a team couldt make the \ard and two-thirds it need • to make its distance." Henry Curtis, famous lineman back " 03 and ’O4. has been obtained as assistant coach in place of Curt Redden, who could not return this year. only seven mm showed up toda.x for early practice and some of last year's stars have not >et sent word that they will be herA. althou gh but M( l<inn< n ate expected. Os las’ war’s team onl> Corbet, end and ■ anti Barion. end. are here, although ’ Bu' ides” Patterson and Guard Quinn ate pruted tonight. BLOCK GETS NEWSPAPER DECISION OVER GIBBS NEW ORLEANS, Oct. I Matt Blo< of Cleveland, won from Willie Gibb Philadelphia, in a ten-round bout I nigiit at tlie Orleans Athletic club It « a * a newspaper decision, but a unanlm""' one. Wan* to rent your rooms, aparinier' house'. K.ieinrs'i location-?, etc " ’ in Tlm 'tcorgian';- Rent Bulletin o n -sant .i<i page:* will fill your vacancit Try it and see.