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And by the same token 1 should be a very much surprised man if 1 belonged to the American league and the Red Sox won. I make that statement because I do not want it said that X picked the Giants because they were repre senting our league. 1 believe that McGraw has the better hall club and that he will win for that rea son rather than because the Giants will represent the National league To my mind, the Giants have been underrated. McGraw has a team vhich comes through in the pinches. That is the kind of a team which wins the world's cham pionships. It may be stated that if this is true that the Giants should have won last year. That does not hold, for the reason that there is no com parison between the Athletics and the Red Sox. Play Great Ball in the Pinches. The strength of the Giants is realized by few people tn baseball. The team got off to a runaway lead and then slumped. But the mo ment that we became dangerous the New Yorkers braced and pulled away. If w«e could have peased the New Yorkers. I believe that the Culis would have won the pennant. The Giants also had that impres sion and they played desperately to see that we did not get in the lead. They proved to me that they were there when they had to be and 1 think that they will be in the big series. You hear a great deal about the wonderful pitching staff of the Boa ■ ten fellows and little of that of the Grants. But in my opinion the Giants have H all over the Red Sox when it comes to twirlera. Trsreau, Mathewson and Mar gnard are three men likely to give arty team a battle Mathewson may be all tn The only trouble is that h» refuses to bear out the words when hr gets on the stab. With a little rest, 1 look to see him come back and pitch wonderful ball Te>r»*u One of Beet in League Teereau. to my notion. Is one of the greatest pitchers in our league. He is even greater than people Imagine, because It Is mighty diffi cult for a youngster to get the break tn which he is entiled There is a disposition on the part of ball players to belittle a young ster. He must get out there and deliver for an entire year before they will ever admit that he is good. They say he is lucky Well, I want to give this big youngster lots of credit, because if he doesn’t prove one of the greatest men in the league, 1 will be mistaken. Marquand will be no snap. Now, Joe Wood is a great pitch er .nd 1 am not belittling him. But When you have said that Joe Wood is a great man you have said al most all that can be said in favor of th*- Boston staff. The other men nr> good pitchers, yes. but star pit hers No. Oh< heats lots of talk about Speaker. He is a wonderful ball Idayet but tin Cubs have beaten t'Atns that possessed oine great star Recall the stales between the t’ubs and the Tigers, or rather th* two series. Speaker is no greater Hall player titan Ty us Cobb. Yet the Tigers w< re easy. When you depend upon one man. or two men, to win a world's cham pionship, you are taking a long chance. If Cobb had oimi through, the Sacnea between the Lubs and the Tigers might have been interesting. But he didn’t. If Speaker playa up to his repu tation, he may cause a io, of trou ble for the Giants. But its the team of strong men rather than the < lull with one great, big giant that wins the world's champion ship. Os course, you ar< going to cite the case of Prank Raker, of tile Athletics, to disprove my words. His long drives did win against the Giants last year; but there is this difference: The Athletic pitch ers were good enough to hold the Giants to a position where <>n< CORBETT DANGEROUSLY ILL, HAS BARE CHANCE PHILADELPHIA, Oct 2. ’’James J. Corbett lias a light ing chance, ill' passed i good night." This announcement was given out at Jefferson hospital today in re gard to the condition of the t'ormei champion pugilist, who was oper ated on last night for appendicitis. The former champion lay at the point of death last night, but ral lied during the early morning hours and the 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* tn time to save ('or- FODDER FOR FANS Joe Wood is up against It He can’t set his wedding day until bo knows when the season will' end As soon as the series is well over he will marry Miss I .aura O'Shea. • • * Frank Chance sajs he will never sign a contract which prohibits him from tak ing a drink whenever he Is thirst \ \ Jot of his henchmen will, however, for the\ haven’t any farms to fall back on in < use their money gives out. • * • BUI Bernhard can get Pitcher Booth Hopper from New Haven next spring sot another trial If he wants him. illicit he isn’t at all certain that he docs • • • Abstein is the only member of the 1912 Memphis infield who is sure of a regular berth next spring llallinan has been re turned (he was only borrowed, anyhow » Moulton is slow, Crandall has been drafted, Bales will get a further trial at third, on the strength of his good show ng this year • • • Big league papers, commenting on M Demaree s debut, remarked that he had a “cramped shoulder motion " That's a mild way of putting it Still there is no denying that lie's effective when Iv's right. • « • Doubtless there was considerable dick ering between Charles Murphs and Minet Brown when the pitcher gave up his three-year contract with the Cubs and agreed to accept his release • ♦ • Work has already been started on pre paring the Pensacola diamond for the coining of the Cleveland and Toledo teams next year. • • • Marty O’Toole’;- work n« xt year will be worth watching He has been showing something that closely resembled promise this fall • * • Larry Doyh* was born in Caseyville, 111 , He worked live years while a boy in the coal mines there. Suggs gels a bonus of >SOO for winning 20 games this season if he wins them. Ilf lacks but one now of the needed score. • • • Tim Murnane has started a movement io have (’lark Griffith's name carved on the Washington monument • • • Jim Vaughn <iidn i have any more luck with Kansas City this \v.i’ than he did in the Xmericun league Hut he’s talking enthusinstn all,\ of next year which all of 'em do Clymei has the great* -r« or<- ot the American association lit 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 with a weaker pitching staff, the long blows of Baker would have been spectacular, but they wouldn't have won a world’s championship. I believe that McGraw has the better balanced ball club, that he has a team of strong men rather i than a club with one or two stars. I think that that well balanced team is going to win, because all of tin- 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. bed's life. Mis. Corbett, summoned from New York by a message that her husband was dying, spent the night at the hospital, most of the time in hpr hftsband's loom. She broke down and wept sever al times as her husband raved in delirium of the battle at ('arson city, in which lie 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. Corbett was billed to appear this week at the 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 the ex-champion's recovery. hits, base-running ami was the most con i sistent batetr of the season. of the games wop and lost hi the Amer ican association this year 195 games were won by a margin of one run • • • With a chance at the world's batting honors Joe laekson hasn’t been running out his hits of late The old Nap apathy lias settled down on him • • » Fred Clarke will begin thinning out his Pirate tciim very shortly He will let a ness of men go to Columbus ■ ■ close a deal he made earlier this season with that club DONAHUE SCORES A WIN: JIM TRAVERS IS VICTIM PEORIA ILL, Oct. 2. —Harty Don ahue. tlie Pekin lightweight, scored a clean knockout over Jimmie Travers, of Chkago. in the third round of a scheduled ten-round bout before the Marquette Athletli club here last night, THE BASEBALL CARD. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Chicago in Detroit. Cleveland in St Louis Standinn of the Clubs. ~ I I’*’ NV I. PO Boston 103 ts, C’lund 72 77 .184 Wash $9 60 597 Detroit . <’>'.• 80 (8.1 I'tula. 89 GO .597 S. Louis 52 98 .347 Chicago 74 7G .493 X York 49 100 .::29 Yesterday’s Results. I'biladelphia 4. New York 3 Boston 12. W asliington 3 Others not scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Brooklyn in Boston. I’liilad-iph ia in New York Standing of the Clubs. \V T PC . J. p(• N 1 ork lot 4G Gx? I’hiiu 71 77 ign I’ bury ?2 (G Gl7 s Louis G 3 88 417 ('bl' IK" 89 59 6(>l Br'klxii 57 91 385 ’"natl. 71 77 190 Boston 48 100 324 Yesterday's Results. I' Ul.oe ■ , ■ New 1 \2. > Loin- ::. citu mnati 2. Boston-Brooklyn, rain. , 5. A RED SDX DO NOT LOOK SO ODDO, SMS 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 sine did win handily yesterday, and they really looked good. But in the other two games they played fat 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 Sysonby, but whether the others will stand the gaff is the question. 1 am including Gardner in this list on Clark Griffith's word. Larry is laying off with a split finger. He'll be o. k. foi the big battle with the Giants. Griff says Gardner has got more nerve in tight quarters than any player he ever knew. Collins, who is said to be Stahl's second best pitcher, looked awfully bad in the game he worked here. He may have had an off day. but lie will surely have to show more i lass than he did against the Sen ators to stop such sluggers as Doyle and Meyers. It is my opinion that tlie Wash ington club, as it is playing now, is every bit as good, if not better, Ilian 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 sure outs for a Southern league gardener. 1 placed SSO oti Boston to beat the Giants the first day I landed here. Am glad it isn't any more, . Fhe 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 \ \Sli\ II.LB. TENN . (.let 2. About 600 students of Vanderbilt university are to go to Cambridge November 9 to’wit ness the Harvard-Vanderbilt football game. (in account of the fact that there will be three days lost from school, the fac ulty will, of course. have to be consulted and permission obtained It is not be lieved. if this enterprise is worked up right, that the faculty will make any il'joii >n ;‘>>r it will a great mlver tis< -ent for the uni'ersitx and the big kcs stum of the kind evei pulled off in th* South. Big League Managers Balk at Letting Agler Come to Atlanta SMITH LANDS MUNCH, BARTAN, M’DONALD AND LONG By \V. S. Farnsworth. \ 1 7 ASHINGTON. D. C., Oct. 2. y\/ —JJHIy Snjith 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 w inner in 1913. Had a long talk with them both last evening. Said. “Griff:” "Billy Smith is one grand fellow, and 1 am going to give him all the ball players lie needs.” Now. Griff is a sincere man. He has promised Smith players; and lie FANS PULLING AGAINST HARBISON. SAYS CRANE By Sam Crane. Philadelphia, oct. 2.—when a ball player makes good in a town the 'best is usually not too good for him, and this includes tlie wishes of tlie 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' new players find themselves in. They have gained such a grip on fan dom in the 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. hred Smith and “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 aw ful 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 hr constructed of wood and will be covered by a felt roof. It will be completed for the Ala bama game. October 12. The new stand will occupy a position directly opposite the old grandstand, and will he parallel with the football field, ft will give a much better view of the field than the present one. and also be closer to the side lines. The completion of the newt grand stand will give a seating capacity 01' 5.000 person, witli side line facilities for taking care of hundreds. Side line fences have been built around tlie field providing for a special space of some 10 feet wide next to the Held for reporters, so that they can follow the games closely without having to dodge through the crowds. Back of this is the regular side line space for spectators. For the opening college game with Ala bama here, on October 12, every thing will be in ship-shape order anti the local foot ball enthusiasts will be agreeablv sur prised. SENATORS SLUMP AND MAY DROP BACK A PEG W ASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-—Boston yes terday broke Groom's winning streak of nine straight games, defeating hint easily. 12 to 3, and making it two out of three in the last series of the season here. The hitting of Lewis and Gandll featured the game. Sjieaker was given five bases on balls. By losing today, while Philadelphia was winning. Washington went back to a tie with Philadelphia for second place COACHLESS MERCERIANS PREPARING FOR AUBURN MAx'o.x GA . October 2. Despite the fact that the Mercer eleven is without a ■ oach on account of the continued ill-' nes« of Dr. C Strouds, team practice is progressing in preparation for tlie game with Auburn in 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 “cover 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 off 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 tlie youngster fails to satisfy Wolverton, so he will be re turned. It is Rochester that wants Smith back. He played only' a short time with Ganzel's team, and his popularity is therefore all the more remarkable. A strange tiling 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. M hen 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 not the case. KAVANAUGH WILL LOOK AFTER SOX-CUB SERIES < HICAGO. Oct. 2. A telegram from Garry Herrmann, chairman of the Nat ional Commission, today announced th* appointment of W. M. Kavanaugh, presi dent of the Southern League, as repre sentative of ih« commission at the series between tlie Sox and tlie Cubs Mr. Kavanaugh acted in a similar capacity last year. Chairman Herrmann asked the complete °; < ’”U players for tlv* series. The South and \\ est Side officials an nounced the following were eligible: Six Benz. Bodie, Borton. Barrows, Cal ianan. Collins. Cicotte. Douglas, Easterlv Gleason. Ernest Johnson. Kuhn. Lancet Loid. Mattick. Mayer, Rath, Sullivan sc ha k I Scott. Walsh, White. Weaver Zetder. ’ Gubs--Chance. Saier. Evers, Tinker. Zimmer man. Downey. Downs, Archer’ Needham. Cotter. Scheckard, , . te * Good, Miller. Brown. Richie. Reulbach. Cheney. Lavender loney. Loudermilk, Sommers. Madden.’ Letheld, Smith. AGLER TO GET TRY-OUT BEFORE SEASON ENDS WASHINGTON. Oct. 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 tn 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 than anything else, as the Nationals at that time had a chance for the pennant, and would have been up against it had anything hap pened to Chick Gandll. Agler is e left hand thrower and hitter, and Is fast. Tlie implicit confidence that many people have in Chamberlain's Colic : t'holera and Diarrhoea Remedy i< founded on their experience in the use of that remedy and their knowledge of the many remarkable cures of colic, dia rhoea and 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. “I have two fellows, a bat tery—Dutch Munch, catcher, and Buck Bartan, pitcher—that I atn 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 sort 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 Day ton 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 was 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 spend 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 tlie 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 John I. McGraw, of the New York Giants, went over to Washington to size up the Boston Red Sox. With the world sc ries struggle to begin here just a week lienee. McGraw took one of the earliest opportunities offered since his tram cinched the pennant to study his oppo nents. He was expected to pay pa’* ticular attention to the tactics of Jaka Stahl, the Boston leader, with wb"i McGraw will match wits in the big games. He bad no opportunity, how ever. to study the pitching of Joe Wooo, for Stahl sent in Bedient, one of hts second string men. During McGraw's absence Marqttard and Tesreau. two of the star pit J wh<» are being groomed for the wo 0 series, w ent down in defeat before Phil adelphia. It was a shock to the ardent fans to see a second division team bunch hits in three innings and finish with a score of 9 to 2 against theif favorites. Marquard had to be out in the fifth, and "Big" Jeff I’" reau did even worse work, allowing seven hits and giving four bases balls. COMPANY F WANTS GAMES Company F of the Seventeenth in* fantry has organized a football t> and would like to arrange a gam- with any team averaging not over 1 J “ pounds. Any one who wishes a game is requested to call Sergeant Keevei. Bell phone, Fort McPherson. MARTIN MAY 19U PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES / for SALE