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6 gioman sire® ©ore® * expekw EDITED 4r 9 FARNSWORTH And the Weight Was Solid Iron This Time :: :: :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher j j |S x. r"''k rKk < l ' J -M-U P.X 6O Uf> Htr THAT v>w,.o C gVu« > I COULDN'T —_ I L,... f .-—_ Foe. jepf J YOVR6 ON , THts- i can * / S I WIN J ! />, Hf \ ,- I ~ v-<gSC I ANY 8008 CAN i „, _ F" r-S 6-77 \ Joiiibii’Jli —U I H S ? fr\| I H ’ T ™* T **<*' IIT /T'«sLh fmtHT 1 fflflin p~ ® J w W iJr ’■ W.i LI sktr ’ ■ i j •j w€ fO. w ifcz j jj ■■ - x h ” miw J ' H /’■B "4|B< Jfe- C_i_ A 3 MjF£3l2* gJLJJ I) Lr z ■ f n " ' ■ ’■’ * * ■ -I .... - -■ - '/ _ I ~5«>K. -»f ITKH eoycyiAK-r Famous Cub Player Believes That McGraw’s Team Has Been Underrated GIANTS WILL COME THROUGH—-JOHN EVERS By .John .1. Evers. (Second Baseman of Chicago Cubs.) I- F the New Yolk Giants do not defeat th< Boston Re.l Sox and bling the world's championship flag back to the National league. 1 eertainlx -hall be a disappointed man. And by t lie same token I should be i very mm h surprised man if 1 belong'd to the American league and the Red Sox won. 1 make that statement be. ausv 1 do not want it said that I picked the Giants because ibex were repre senting our league 1 believe that McGraw has the better ball club and lhat he will win for that : e.i jinn rather than because the Gian's will represent the National league To my mind, the Giants have been underrated. McGraw has a team which comes through in the pinches. That is the kind of a team which vx the world's cham pionships. it max be stated lhat if this Is trm that tin Giants should have won last x eai That does nut hold, for the r.-ason that there is no com parison lietxxeen the Athletics and the Red Sox Play Great Ball in the Pinches. The strength of the Giants is realized bx fexx people in baseball. The team gm off to a rmiaxxax bad and then slumped But the mo ment that xx. became dangerous the New Yorkers braced and pulled away. If we could have passed the Nexx Yorkers'. 1 believe that the Cubs would have won the pennant The Giants also had that impres sion and thex played despcratelx to me that we did not get in the lead Thex proved to me that thex were there when thex had to be and I think that they will be in the big ■erles. You hear a great deal about the wonderful pitching staff of the Bos ton fellows and little of that of the Giants. But in my opinion the Giants have it all over the Red Sox when it comes to twirlers. Teareau. Mathewson and Mar guard ar., three men llkelx to give anx train a battle. Mathewson may be all in The .mix trouble is that h> refuses to bea. out tin words when he gets on thi slab With a iittli lest 1 look to see him .nine back and pitch wonderful bail. Tegreau One of Best in League Tesreau. to my notion, is one of the great!'t pitchers in our .. ague He is even greater than people Imagine, bieausc it is might' ilitl'i cult for a youngster to get the break to which he >s . ritiled There is a disposition on the part of ball platers to belittle a young ster He must get out there and deliver sot an entire yeai before thex wii' owr admit that he Is good. Thex sax he is luckx Well, I want to giv. this lug youngster lots of eiedlt because f be doesn't prove on. of the greatest men in the league. I will be mistaken Marqttard w 1,1 be no snap Noxx Joe Wood is a gr. ~: pitclt — nd 1 sr.i .. •! belittling him But w hen you have said that Jo. Wood is a great man xou haxe said al most all that .an be said in favor of the Boston staff. The other men ar. good pitchers, xes but star plt< hers" No. one heals lots of talk about Speaker He Is a wonderful ball plaxer. but the Cubs hat' beaten teams that poas. iw-il mm gr. .it star. Recall the series betvxeen the Cubs and Hie Tigers, m rathe, the two ser.es Speaker ’s no g..-,.t..r ball p ayer than Txius Cobb. V-t tb.e Tigers xx. t < eas\ When you depend upon one man. or two men, to wm a world's cham • pionship, you are taking a long chance. If i'obb ba., ion. thiuug. t game' between thi ■ tbs and tin. Tigris might have been Interesting. Bui In- didn't. If Speaker plays up tn his iepu tatlon. hi- may cause a lot of trou ble fol the Giants. But It s the team of strong men rather than the club with one great, big giant that wins the world's champion ship. Os i nurse, you ale going Io cite the case of l-'rank Baker, of the | Athletics to disprove my words. His long drives did win against the Giants last teat, but there is this difference The Athletic pitch its were good enough to hold the iliums lo a position where one iCORBETTDANGE RO USLY ILL. HAS BARE CHANCE ! J Illi VI i-iI.PHIA. <e t. Ii im - .1 < 'o! bet l has a light - ing -it . i He pass. d a good night." 'llll- a nnotiiu riiu'iit was given out at Jefferson hospital today in re gard to the condition of the former champion pugilist, who was oper ated on la-t night for appendicitis. Tile former champion lay at the point of death last night, but tal lied during the early morning hours and tin- hospital attendants ex pressed belief that his strong con stitution would pull him through unless blood poisoning should de velop. Though the appendix was ruptur ed before the operation, a condi tion often causing fatal peritonitis, the surgeons hoped they had done their work in time to save t'or- I EODDER FOR FANS lor Wood is up against it Hr cant m»i his wedding day until he knows when M .iM.n whi ©nd \> - n as ■he series is well over he will man*} Miss I .aura O Shea Frank Cham r says he will never sign a contract which prohibits him from tak ing a drink whenever he is thirst} \ lot of his hem hmen will. however, for thex haven’t any farms to fall back on in case their money gives out • • • Bill Bernhard can get l‘it« her Booth Hopper from New Haven next spring for another trial if he wants him. which hr isn’t at all certain that he does • • • \bstein is the only member of the 1912 Memphis inheld who is sure of a regular berth next spring Hallinan has been re turned (he was only borrowed. aux how * Moulton is slow, Crandall has been drafted, Bales will gel a further trial ai third, on the strength of his good •showing this year • • • Big league papers, commenting <»n \1 Demaree’s debut remarked that he had a “cramped shoulder motion ’ That* a rudd wax of putting it. Still there is no denying that he's effective when he s right • • • Doubtless there was considerable dick ering between Charlex Murph} and Mtnet Brown when the pitcher gave up his three-} ear contract w ith the Cubs and agreed to accept his release • ♦ • Work has ahead} been started on pr< paring the Pensacola diamond for the coming of the (.'leveland and Toledo teams next }ear • • • Mari} < > Tool* s work next xear will be worth watching He has been showing something that closelx resembled promise this fall l.nrrx Doyle was born in Casey vihx 111.. He worked fix* wars while a boy in the coal mines there Suggs gets a bonus of SSOO for winning gai • - this season f he w ns them, i He lacks but <>nc now of the needed score, Tim Murnane has started a movement i li. ('lark Griffith's name carved on ike Washington monument • • • Jim Vaughn didn't have an} mote hick w th Kansas c.ty this xea’ ’han be did in ; tbo American league But he - talking i»mth isiasticall} of next xeai wh:« h all of vm do. I ‘ixmer ha - i< greatest r. , oto of the A inert' an asswiuUon. Hv led in runs. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1912. drive could upset the game and later the series. With a weaker team ■'or w ith a weaker pitching staff, the long blows of Baker would have been spectacular, but thfey wouldn't have won a world's eha tnplonship. I believe that McGraw has the better balanced ball club, that he has a team of strong men rather than a club with one or two stars. I think that that well balanced team is going to win, because all of the Giants will hit and all of their pitchers will pitch, and they will not be dependent upon any one or two men to carry them along. belt's life. Mis- t'orhett, summoned from Now York by a message that her husband was dying, spent the night at the hospital, most of the time in her husband's room. She btoke dow n and wept sever al times as her husband raved in delirium of the battle at Carson City. m which he lost the heavy - weight title to Bob Fitzsimmons. Physicians believed that the solar plexus blow which cost him the ti tle at that time weakened him so that he became a prey for appen dicitis. • 'orbett was billed to appear this week at tile Peoples theater but to day his company was ordered dis banded. By many this was con sidered as indicating that the man ager believed there was little hope of tlie ex-champion's recovery. | hits, base-running and was the most con sistent batetr of the season. of the games won ami lost in the \mer ican association this xear 195 games were won by a margin of one run. • * * With a chance at the worlds batting I honors Joe Jackson hasn't been running out his hits of late 'The old Nap apathx has settled down on him. • • • I red Clarke will begin thinning out his Pirau team vei x shortlx He will lei a | mess of men go to Columbus to close a oeal he made earlier this season with ’that club. DONAHUE SCORES A WIN: JIM TRAVERS IS VICTIM t I —" - . PK< *KIA. ILL., <»<t. 2. Harry Don* ahue. the Pekin lightweight scored a clean knockout over Jimmie Travers, I of Chicago, in the third round of a i scheduled ten-round bout before the Marquette Athletic club here last night. I THE BASEBALL CARD. AMERICAN LEAGUE. _ Games Today. 1 < "> o ~kc tn I ’etroit • 'leveland In st Louis. Standlno of the Clubs Wl.pi- W 1. P 0 • Ros on nr: t>; ft.o I'land 72 77 t'4 1 Wash S:» BO Detroit •>:* So ait: | Phiiu s-i ito •: s Louis 52 as :ti7 .[Chicago 74 78 41‘3 X York 4'. 100 T.T ’ j Yesterday’s Results, I Philadelphia 4. New York :t Boston 12. Washington 3 < Übers not scheduled NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Brooklyn in Boston. Philadelphia in New York Standing ot the Clubs. W I. PC 1 W I PC X York 101 4»» i'.S7 Phila 71 77 tBO P’burg ''2 40 817 S Louis S 3 SS 117 Cln.ag. >•' ‘ »o*t Rr'klyn 77 bi k.‘> ' '.I. 71 77 ISO Boston 48 100 "24 Yesterday's Results. ’ Ila.leh.hta '• Xa« York I'n tshurg i i'i i. j K ,. i ' St. I ..us :t < ’mviimtili ’ ■ Boston-Brooklj n. ram. RED SOX DO NOT LOOK SO GOOD, SMITH By Billy Smith. WASHINGTON. ,D. <'.. Oct. 2. —After having watched the Boston Red Sox in their three games with the Senators here. I am not as confident as I was a week ago that they will clean up the Giants in the world series. Jake Stahl's team sure did win handily yesterday, and they really looked good. But in the other two games they played far from pennant ball. It is my opinion that the back- bone. the strength and the heart of the Boston team consists of Speak er. Wood, Wagner, Gardner and Yerkes. These fellows are as stout hearted as a Svsonby, but whether the others wiil stand the gaff is the question. 1 am including Gardnei in this list on t'lark Griffith's word. Larry is laying off with a split finger. He'll be o. k. for the big battle with " the Giants. Griff says Gardner has got more nerve in tigiit quarters than any player he ever knew . Collins, who is said to be Stahl's second best pitcher, looked awfully had in the game he worked here. He may have had an off day. but he will surely have to show more class than he did against the Sen ators to stop 'itch sluggers as Doyle and Meyers. It is my opinion that the Wash ington club, as it is playing now, is every bit as good, if not better, than the Red Sox. 1 heard so much about Boston's great outfield Speaker. Hooper and Lewis—that I expected to witness some sensational work by them. But. believe me. outside of Speaker, there isn t anything to that com bination. Tris is the keystone and guiding hand, and the other two look good simply because Speaker steers them straight. Both Hooper and Lewis let fly balls go for hits here that would have been sere outs for a Southern league gardener I placed s.‘>h on 80-ton to b< at the Giants the fitst day 1 landed here. Am glad" it isn't any more ’———————————————| The 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. COBB 545 222 .408 JACKSON 556 218 .392 SPEAKER . 569 219 .385 LAJOIE 425 149 .351 COLLINS 525 174 .331 Only two members of the big five played yesterday, as was the case the day before: and again the two were Speaker and Collins. The former had the freaky record of one time at bat and one hit; the latter was four times at bat and made no hits at all. 600 VANDERBILT MEN MAY SEE HARVARD GAME NASHVILLE. TENN. Oct 2 Vbout COO students us Vanderbilt university are to go to Cambridge November 9 to wit ness the Hurt aid-Vanderbilt football game On account of the fact that there will In three days lost from school, the fac ulty w ill, of course. have to lie consulted and permission obtained. It is no< be I even. If this enterprise is worked m* tight. that the faculty will make any • bieeti.m for it nil be a g-cat adver t’.scmen! for flu uni'ersio md the big st stun- ’t the kind ever pulled off in the South Big League Managers Balk at Letting Ag/er Come to Atlanta SMITH LANDS MUNCH, BARTAN, M’DONALD AND LONG By TV. S. Farnsworth. M X T ASHINGTON. D. C„ Oct. 2. yy Biliy Smith is breaking his neck trying to get a pen nant winning team for the Crack ers. And in Clark Griffith he has a friend who is making it his busi ness to see that the Atlanta leader does have a winner in 1913. Had a long talk with them both last evening. Said "Griff:" "Billy Smith is one grand fellow, and I am going to give him all the ball players he needs.” Now Griff is a sincere man. He has promised Smith players, and he FANS PULLING AGAINST HARBISON, SAYS CRANE By Sam Crane. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2.—When a ball player makes good in a tow n the best is usually not too Jfood for him, and this includes the wishes of the fans. Still, strange as it may seem, there are times when a player is so popular his admirers root against his success. This is the position two of the Yan kees' m-w players find themselves in. They have gained such a grip on fan dom in tlie cities from which they grad uated that nothing would please that fickle crowd more than to see them fail to make the big show when Wolverton separates the wheat from the chaff in the spring. Bred Smith ami "Dug" Harbison are the two tossers in question. Harbison was a member of the Atlanta team until the Yankees gained him in the recent draft. He played shortstop for the Dixie nine, and the fans put up an awful war when they discovered that he was to be taken from them. They averred Manager Smith should have "covered him up" some way so that the TECH LETS CONTRACT FOR NEW GRANDSTAND A contract has been let for the erec tion of a new grandstand at Tech flats. It will have a seating capacity of 2,000 persons The stand will be constructed <>f wood and will be covered by a felt roof It wiil be completed for the Ala bama game. October 12. The new stand will occupy a position directly opposite the old grandstand, and will be parallel with the football field. It will give a much better view of the field than the present one v and also be closer to the side lines. 'The completion of the new grand stand will give a seating capacity of 5.000 person, with side line facilities for taking care of hundreds. Side line fences i ave been built around the field providing for a special space of some 10 feet wide next to the field for reporters, so that thej can follow the games closely without having to dodge through the crowds. Rack of this is the regular side line space for spectators. For the opening college game with Ala bama here, on October 12. everything will be in ship-shape order and the local foot ball enthusiasts will be agreeably sur prised. SENATORS SLUMP AND MAY DROP BACK A PEG WASHINGTON. Oct. 2.—Boston yes tmilay broke Groqm's winning streak of nine straight games, defeating him •asily. 12 to 3. and making it two out ■•f thiee in the last scries of tile season l ei. The hitting of Lewis and Gandil featured the game. Speaker was given five bases on balls. By losing today, while Philadelphia was winning. Washington went back to a tie w ith Philadelphia for se< ond place COACHLESS MERCERIANS PREPARING FOR AUBURN M.U’i.iX GA October 2. Despite the fact that the Mercer eleven is without a coach.' on account of the continued ill ness of Dr C. Strouds team practice •s progressing in preparation for the game with Auburn Ln Columbus on Saturday . is going to make good. Hard To Get Agler Back. First of all, Joe Agler is going back to Atlanta, but the "covet up" is not proving as simple as Presi dent Callaway first thought it would. Griff has got to use all his friendly influence with at least three American league managers before he gets the first sacker waived out of the Johnson circuit. But Griff will do It or burst in the attempt. Griff Gives Smith a Battery, Griff tipped me «>ff when Smith wasn’t listening that he is going to turn over an amateur battery to big leaguers couldn't get him, but now that they have lost claim to him. it is their one desire that the youngster fails to satisfy Wolverton, so he will be re turned. Il is Rochester that wants Smith back. He played only a short time with Ganzil's team, and his popularity is therefore all the more remarkable. A strange thing in connection with the youngster’s career, too, is that a month Or two ago he was entirely unwelcome in the up-state town. He was sent there in lieu of another player who refused to report and at the ex pense of one of their best outfielders. When John Ganzel was persuaded to part with McMillan and Lelivelt. Jack Martin and Guy Zinn were part of the purchase price. Zinn refused to report, so the Yankee management had to send back Lelivelt or some other outfielder. Smith had just joined the Yankees from Brockton, so Wolverton immediately sent him in place of the rebellious Zinn. The Bronchos thought they were being handed an inferior substitute, but a few weeks' time made it clear that such was I not the case. KAVANAUGH WILL LOOK AFTER SOX-CUB SERIES • 'HIt'AGO. Oct. 2. A telegram fr->m Garry Herrmann, chairman of the Nat ional Commission, today announced the appointment of w M. Kavanaugh, presi dent of the Southern League, as repre sentative of the commission at the series between the Sox and the Cubs m,‘ Kavanaugh acted in a similar eanacitv last year. Chairman Herrmann asked the complete lists of Sox and <'ub players for the series The South and West Side officials an nounced the following were eligible: Six Benz. Bodie, Borton. Barrows, Cal lahan. Collins. Cicotte. Douglas Easterlv Gleason. Ernest Johnson. Kuhn. Lange' Lord. Mattick. Mayer. Rath, Sullivan' Schakl Scott. Walsh. White, Weaver' Zeider Cubs -Chance, Saier. Evers. Tinker. Zimmerman. Downey, Downs. Vrche- Needham. Cotter. Scheckarrl, Leach’ Schulte. Williams, Good. Miller. Brown’ Richie. Reulbach. Cheney. Lavender Toney. Loudermilk. Sommers. Madden' Leifield. Smith. AGLER TO GET TRY-OUT BEFORE SEASON ENDS W .VSHINGTtjN. 2 Joe Agler first baseman, of the Atlanta club, obtained by the Nationals several weeks ago will report to Manager Griffith soon, and will be in tlie line-up before the season closes. Agler is rated as the best first sacker in the Southern league, and Griff bought him more for protection titan anything else, as the Nationals at that time had : a chance for the pennant, and would hate been till against it had anything hap pened to Chick Gandil. Agler is left hand thrower and hitter, and is fast. The implicit confidence that man' , people have in Chamberlain's t'olk Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy is I founded mt their expeitem e in tlie us> of that remedy and their knowledge of the many remarkable cures of , olio, i diarrhoea am! dysentery that it has ef fected. For sale by all dealers. (Advt.i To change the horrible conditions of our streets vote for Charles S. Robert for Chief of Construction. Billy. "J have two fellows, a bat tery— Dutch Munch, catcher, and Buck Bartan, pitcher—that I am going to give to Billy before he leaves town,” said Griff. "I haven't told him about it yet, though. This battery won the championship of the District Amateur league this season for the Peco team. I am going to keep a soil of a string on both these youngsters. That shows how much I think of them." Billy is delighted that he secured by draft Shortstop Dobard from the Dayton club of the Central league. Dobard hit .287 last season. He is a New Orleans boy. Smith also has received assurance from Grif fith that he will turn over Out fielder Long, who wm with Mobile last season. Herrmann Contributes McDonald. Garry Herrmann sent Smith a telegram this morning, stating that he believes he can slip Infielder McDonald to Atlanta. McDonald would sure make a valuable man for the Crackers. * Smith will go, along with the Senators to New York this - after noon. where the Griff men open their final series of the season with the Highlanders. Billy will stick through for the world's series and will then go to his home in Spring field. where he intends to spenjl about three weeks before returning to Atlanta. No Chance For Sid Smith. Sid Smith has told Billy that he would like to return to the Crack ers next year. Billy is going to stop off in Columbus, and see if he can land the hard-hitting Sidney It is doubtful if anything can be done along this line, however, as Sid was considered the best back stop in the American association this season. He caught practically every game for Billy Friel’s club, and it will be almost impossible to get him out of that circuit. McGRAW SIZES UP HIS OPPONENTS IN SERIES NEW YORK. Oct. 2—Manage) Join J McGraw, of the New York Giants went over to Washington to size up th' Boston Red Sox. With the world .*■ ries struggle to begin here just a wcT hence. McGraw took one of the earli'-t opportunities offered since his t.-m cinched the pennant to study his opl” nents. He was expected to pay i j ticulai attention to the tactics of Jul" Stahl, the Boston loader, with xx m McGraw will match wits in the big games. He had no opportunity, how ever. to study the pitching of Joe " """ for Stahl sent in Bedient, one of I second string men. During McGraw's absence Marg . and Tesreau. two of the star pit' I>' who are being groomed for the '■ set les, w ent down in defeat before I'n adelphia. It xvas a shock to the aid fans to see a second division t 1 bunch hits in three innings ahd fii>> with a score of 9 to 2 against favorites. Marquard had to he t i .' out in the fifth, and "Big" Jeff reau did even worse work, allowim seven hits and giving four ba-e --balls. COMPANY F WANTS GAMES. Company F of the Seventeenth fantry has organized a footliall t i and would like to arrange a gam' any team averaging not over pounds. Any one who wishes a c Is requested to call Sergeant K-■ Bell phone. Fort McPherson. MARTIN MAY \ ' 19i/ a PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES / F ° R SALE /C/