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Basebail Is a Game of Alibis
And Fogel a Sausage-C. Dryden
By Charles Dryden.
Chicago, oct 3. vviiai is the
national pastime we hear so
much about'.’ To the wild ass
of the bleachers and the cornl'ed
boob in the boxes it is a game of
science, skill and saliva between
two tennis of profusely illustrated
young men with red necks and
freckles. To the insider the whole
Institution, from top to bottom, Is
founded on bull ton. booze, bone
heads and alibis; and tin greatest
of these is the alibi
After listening to the almost ante
mortem outcroppings of Mr. Fogel.
Mr. Murphy, Mr. Herrmann, Mr.
Hedges and other game sports, we
have reached the foregoing painful
conclusion. Because the Phillies did
not win the pennant Pinch Presi
dent Fogel of Pint powerful organl
z.atlon bursts Into print with the
statement that President Lynch of
the National league sold three um
pires to McGraw, and that the trio
handed the Giants 21 games they
did not win. Whether this be bull
con, booze, bonehead or alibi, or an
aggravated attack of all four, we
ar< unable to state, one thing is
cei tain Hull. Fogel should be pos
ing a.s the star model in a sausage
factory instead of besmirching tin
national p isllme in til its beauty
anti purity Likewise Innocence
“Herrmann's Case Pathetic."
The ea.se of Mr Herrmann Is pa
thetic He too, Is In the alibi class,
having complained to President
Lynch that Empire I'inneran
cussed Play r Egan instead of
Player Egan cussing the umpire
Becitmi of this discrepancy in the
dope developed in the last week of
the season, the unhappy Reds failed
to cop th<> pennant Curses' The
I> .tint <>f Mr. Herrmann should car
ry great weight He is chairman of
the national commission, an Elk of
international renown and a gentle
man of high literary attainments.
It i« said Mr Herrmann can rend
the label on any bottle in any Eng
lish speaking buffet in the i'nlted
States What is more to the point,
Larry M< Lean, the brilliant young
Red backstop, has been known to
Inhale tin gasoline night and day
for weeks and weeks ami still keep
from skidding The alibi In this
case is ci'in>>>< :e
Poor Mr 1> dges is to be pitied.
He is th< m tint of a wicked con
spiracy. Every year he purchases
forty or fifty bush league artists
al *3 per head, though other clubs
In the same league sometimes go
as high as $4.50 per promising
young athlet' on the hoof. At the
start of each season the Browns
plunge to the bottom and stay
there. Tin reason for this Is that
the American league umpires hay.
Instructions to give the Browns the
short end of all decisions The
idea is to drive Mr. Hedges out of
the baseball bm Im ss and compel
him to peddle Salvation Army song
hits for a bare subsistence Say.
can you beat ft’
“Rum-Ciazed Cubs Win Flags."
We now touch on the melancholy
sorrows of Mr Murphy His rum
crazed ruins won four pennants and
two big tlag- while tin milk-fe.
Sox. full of che' s. tumors landed
one pennant and one world s flag
The last woid in alibi is due to the
faer the Cuba were unable to gr ib
all the pennants what is. Again,
curses! Never has tin alcoholic
alibi pestered Mr. t'omiskey and
causi d him to squirm and welch,
in the eyes of Mr. Murphy a plat
ter of sarsaparilla is greater than
a bonded warehouse within the
broader vision of the convivial Mi
•■"iniskey. V hat are I few b irrels
»of booze to the old Roman lb
Is tin modern Mo.-e- who smites
the bung instead of the rock and
refreshments gush forth
Mr 1 omiskey i- a title sport.
The annex to n,. ~Hn, , t ~r l ~t
thron room, fitted with buttons
that exude liquids when pushed.
When the burden and heat of the
pastime are elided the faithful
creep into the throne room, sit at
the feet of Mr. Cumiskey, sip his
strong waters and tell him what a
wonder he is. Does the demon
rum lose pennants in the South
Side? No. gentle reader; it wins
them next season. Hope and high
balls seethe eternal in the human
chest down where the White Sox
slump.
“Murphy Broods Alone.”
Let ns take a peek at the
of Mr. Murphy. In the loop dis
trict, surrounded with sink holes of
Iniquity and gilded rum palaces.
There is a live-gallon bottle of
pure spring water inverted on a fil
ter of cracked Ice, hut the Cubs do
not cure for that beastly stuff.
They shriek aloud for rum, and
now in this, the hour of his bitter
disappointment. Mr. Murphy sits
and broods alone He might have
wnii hosts of friends had he strag
gled around the loop with a quart
of booze In each hand. but. alas,
he kept his hands in his pants pock
ets and thus forestalled the bar
keepers.
Pity the sorrows of a prohibi
tionist.
'baseball]
Diamond News and Gossip
U
The thirst renovators of Chicago's
south side have a new drink called the
“Cub cocktail.“ It is said to consist of
u glass of water with a bear's hair in it
• * *
Sewroid L ah hing poorly for the Reds
and Me Loan is greatly missed
« * •
McGraw hit it right on the beak when
he .lid tl.ut Fogel and Murphy ought to
l’ l ' "muffled It would bo murder,
though, for to muffle Horace and Charles
would be to kill them.
• « «
The R< »L‘. will barnstorm a bit as usual,
but not for long. Their schedule calls
tor three <hi\s of play after the season
ends.
• « •
!<d Konetchy's three-year contract is
out this year and he will natural!' make
a play for a big raise I’ndoubtedlv. he's
worth it
* ♦
I'mplrt Ffnneran. suspended for using
foul language on the field, will probably i
week n the Eastern league next year
lb has brim in hot water most of tlv
-ason but he hung on largely because
of the sympathy felt for him because of
the Magee incident
• ♦ i
There's one sure thing about the
World's series It will not turn out the
way folks think it's going to Another
stm. thing Is that nobody will admit it
either.
• ♦ •
What t lie Crackers need is not a higher
-alary limit, hut more players who will
• am their salaries
• • •
Tilings haye broken miserably for Neal
,! 'ti <le was canned by Cleveland and
i grabbed by the Red Sox Then lie
snu l.ed a finger and got a nice rest
ibi' t'.'ibit g lias happened that Win keep
Lit; i'urn getting his slice of the w orld's
I series cash.
• • •
lake Stahl s Fh d Sox I.ad a hard race
| this year But think of the battle that
I th.' Übieties. the White Sox. the Naps
and tin Senators are llkelv to give them
I next y ear.
Joe Tinker is voted too crabbed for the
■ 101. of managing the Cubs Same for .1
Even But then. Husk Chance was con
ic, table of a Sour face himself and he
, got la mighty well.
St Louts experts consider that it is
|itdieulous to run the anti-booze clause
n ■ Browns contracts They say the
IS' Louis players could do as well drunk
| as sober.
• « •
I •<• • l’ >gcl -a scheme for paying
'■ ■ •i- n’xih for each game thv\
a-!' which wt'iiid be all right, except
I that it is against the laws of baseball
'l ‘• Giants I av» slumped and are due
| t<» come :«• lif« The Red Sox are due
- ump If anybody can foresee the
♦-xa< • c«'nditit'i' of th* two teams when
»ntor th* ring thv\ can dope out
jil« w » >rI< I's series
• • •
I (>nc \» w S «»rk ba-»‘ba!l writer has al
pi. i. • the Piral' s to win th» peii
nar.i io v \- dI in t| iP National hngu<
It ' a fan guess, too hut win the pre
cipitation?
The national commission Is bolding out
!<•» ♦ -O't hii tiu t- \-ng pm inn- privi
1' K' •' ' w eb: sei if - .ipd nobod' i<
llkvb to give it.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS.THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1912.
Athenians Have Best Chance of Career to Beat Vanderbilt This Year
VANDV WEAKER THAN USUAL, fiEOßfi IA STRONGER
By Percy 11. Whiting.
—A AN Georgia beat Vandei -
I blit?” That question has
been fired at me unnum
bered times in the last three
weeks. Naturally, even a sporting
writer would hesitate before an
swering a query like that. We are
especially inclined to hesitate be
cause we haven't seen G< orgia yet
this year.
II has been the good fortune of
the writer, however, to see the
Vanderbilt team in practice and in
scrimmage several times this fall.
And we say this, right off the
reel, If Georgia w ins over the Com
modores they will play better foot
ball than ever they have played in
our day and time.
• • •
i) I'T here’s the intersting point:
Georgia has a team this year
that is well calculated to play the*
greatest game ever put on tap by
a Red and Black eleven.
The team that Alex Cuningham
is working with now Is one that,
ought to be able to spot the best
of past Georgia teams a dozen
points and beat them in a 60-
minute game.
If. as seems probable, Georgia
has this fall tile greatest of its
football teams. then it surely
has a look-in with Vanderbilt and
may win.
• • •
J ASKED Dan MeGugin point
blank what he thought of the
Georgia-\anderbilt gaum. “Well."
said Dan, “it's a hard game to fig
ure. You have tn consider condi
tion an awful lot in an early game
like tiiat one. Now. we can't yvell
dine to work into any sort of con
dition for the Georgia game. With
contests against Virginia. Harvard.
Auburn and Sewanee looming up
behind that Georgia game, yve have
to round the team into condition
slowly Georgia, on the other hand,
with a lather less difficult sched
ule. is bound to figure that Van
derbilt game a big thing and to
strain every nerve to be ready for
it. I think that Alex makes a mis
take In getting his men too lit for
the Vanderbilt game. It may cost
him other games. But then, of
course, I understand how keen he
is to heat us.
"So It works ou this yvay,” con
tinued Dan: “We have a fair team
with a good back field, no line to
s|«'ak of. a neyu quarterback, no
punter, no man experienced 'n
kicking off and nothing spectacular
about it. and this team yve shall
have to take, half condition, to At
lanta for a game with Georgia. The
Georgia team has marvelous pos
sibilities and will give any team
in the country an awful argument.
It will he in tine condition for the
game with us.
It Is always within the possi
hiliti's that Georgia will beat Van
derbilt. If the Georgia men do not
become overconfident through early
successes and if they play their
level In st against us it is likely
enough that they can get the best
of It.
"But, of eours. added MeGu
gin at th' finish of the talk. “I
think Vanderbilt will win."
• * ♦
-T- HERE are :i lot of reason why
* Vanderbilt has thi advantage.
In tile first place, it has the , xpe
rlenee. MeGugin gets most of his
material from first-class prep
schools. But at that he .*'ldom
uses a man the first year he is in
college. Generally Dan draws his
new varsity men from subs and
scrubs <>f the previous season. Th
freshmen are put on the scrub
team and learn Vanderbilt football
under a Vanderbilt coach, playing
against the Vanderbilt varsity. Aft
er a year or two of that sort of
yrork. they are pi yard on the regu
lar team And by that time they
are ripe. •
When 1 watched the Commodores
I »!’;< • f I<‘i ng t w •'«'!< i’ w«i>' .iihhz
mg to .• ■■'••• t?r nun’ll o' ;;rtai,
big. strapping ehaps, with good
«»•••••••••••••••••••••••«
: Vandy Team Has Been •
•Terror From the Start*
• —— A
• In tackling the Commodores •
• Georgia takes a hack at one of •
• the strongest teams, year in and •
• year out, that the country has •
• ever known —a team that almost •
• always ranks near the top. •
• Vandy has been playing foot- •
• ball for 22 years and in that time •
• has scored 3,878 points to its op- •
• ponents’ 800. Os the games played •
• Vanderbilt has won 774, lost 34 •
• and tied 10, One noticeable fact •
• is that Vanderbilt has neve,- been •
• beaten by an Eastern team. The •
• Commodores played Yale, the •
• Navy and the Indians. Vanderbilt •
• has defeated its anoient rivals, the •
• Sewanee Tigers, fifteen times. Se •
• wanee was returned the winner six •
• times, while twice the score was •
• tied. a
• An idea of what the Commo- •
• dores have done under the Me- •
• Gugin regime can be gathered by •
• the scores of the years since he •
• has been coaching: a
• Year. Vanderbilt. Oppon. •
• 19C4 452 4 a
• 1905 372 22 •
• 1906 278 . .16 •
• 1307 . . . •
• 1908 207 61 a
• 1909 250 24 a
• 1910 147 2 a
• 1911 259 9 a
i a—— a
• Totals 1,965 138 •
• Feature events of the various •
• seasons were: •
• 1904, Missouri School of Mines •
• was the only team to score against •
• the Commodores; 1905, Sewanee •
• was defeated 63 to 4, but Michi- •
• gan won 18 to 0: 1906, Carlisle In- •
• dians were defeated 4 to 0, but •
• Michigan won 10 to 4; 1907, An- a
• napolis was tied at 0 to 0, Michi- •
® gan von 8 to 0, Sewanee was de- •
• seated 17 to 12: 1908. Michigan •
• and Ohio State were the only ones •
• to conquer the Commodores, the •
• so mer 24 to 6 and the latter 17 •
• to 6: 1909. Sewanee won the •
• Thanksgiving game 16 to 5, and •
• Ohio State again won 5 to 0: 1910, a
• Mississippi’s safety was the only •
• sccre against the Commodores, •
• Yale was played to a 0 to 0 tie; •
» 1911, Michigan was the only team a
• to. score against the locals, the •
• Wolverines winning 9 to 8. a
••••••••oaaeaaeaaaaeaaeeoe
prep school records, who were
herded along with the general run
of freshmen and yvere running sig
nals with the third or fourth team. 1
If these men had turned up at Tech
or at Mercer, they would have been
yvelcomed with a brass band and
given a place on the varsity. At
Vanderbilt they ger another year
<>f scrub team seasoning, maybe
two. before they are placed on the
varsity. Then they know football.
It is unlikely that any Southern
team ever know* as much football
as the Commodores.
it yvas this very knowledge of
football that enabled the Commo
dores to tie with Yale last year.
, Said a man who saw the game:
'll yvas amusing to see the way '
the Yale men yvere 'sucked in '
When Yale had the ball the quar
terback would observe a nice gap
in A’anderbilt’s line. 'Here's where '
we’ll drive through for a touch
down,’ he would tell himself. And
then, just as the play got to the '
line it yyas sat doyvn upon by about i
ten men at once. It yvasn't until
the game was nearly over that the
Yale men realized they were being
played for suckers by yyhat they
considered a ‘raw country team.’"
It is likely that Var.le'bilt will
hay e the advant.igi in age It isn't ’
improbable that Georgia will have >
the advantage in weight. In the
matter of speed non* can tell, to a '
certainty ,
offensively the two team.- are ’
marvelously brilliant, McWhorter, i
of Georgia, and Hardage. of Van
derbilt, are as wonderful runners
as the game has developed in many
a day. Each man is the offensive
mainstay of his club. McWhorter
is the better man of the two,
though he has not the vast amount
of superiority over Hardage that
many of his supporters credit him
with.
* ♦ ♦
t N the matter of strength of line
1 it is hard to say where the ad
vantage will lie. \ r anderbilt’s line
is not up to the usual mark. It
hasn't a vast deal of weight and in
knowledge of the game and gen
eral ability it is well below the
Vanderbilt standard.
This is sort of a rambling esti
mate of the two teams and maybe
it brings you back to the same
place you started from. Studying
the situation carefully and consid
ering the two teams, player by
player, it would be difficult for
anybody to give a valid reason for
picking Vanderbilt as the sure win
ner.
The strongest asset Vanderbilt
has is MeGugin. Nobody pretends
to explain why he is a better coach,
in point of games won. than any
other man who ever came into the
South. He doesn't know as much
about the theory of the game as
many another. He wasn't a par
ticularly good player in his col
lege days. He is no deep student
of the sport. He has no fancy
methods. He doesn’t work his men
very' hard.
And yet he wins.
And Just for the very reason that
McGugin’s Vanderbilt teams have
usually won in the past it is sur
mised that they will win again.
MeGugin knows better than any
body else that A’anderbilt’s game
with Georgia in Atlanta will be one
of its toughest this season. And he
will prepare fry It as carefully as
he dares.
It will bo one of the big games
of the year in the South, and At
lanta is lucky to have drawn it.
If Georgia can win it, it will do a
lot toward breaking the "football
trust” and will put football on a
better basis in the South.
You have my word for it, though,
if Georgia wins it will play better
ball than it ever played before in
all its history And that might
easily happen So the thing is in
teresting.
BILLINGS HORSES WILL
SOON REACH LEXINGTON
LEXINGTON, KY.. Oct. 3.—Floral Hall,
at the breeders' track, is being converted
into a 22-stall stable for C. K. G. Billings'
collection of American trotters. Russian
Orloffs, Arabian and English ridimr
horses that is coining this week in two
diMstons The Cleveland division wdl
comprize Lou Dillon, l.okij: t hlan. L.-,X\
Hipester 2.01. Charley Mitchell.
“ nox 4 Lewis korrest. 2.061, ; Lou Billings
-084 i, Haman and Slats. The other di
vision will include the famous Orloff
um- ka ' » thre v ? ra -' s - presented to Mr
club ' anu
BARKER BACK AT MISS.:
WILL PLAY A HALFBACK
OXFORD. MISS., Oct. 3.—“ Rube" Bark
er. All-Southern lineman of 1911 has re
turned to Oxford and will again hold down
a position on the football team, much to
the gratification of Coach DeTracv. Bark
er has been at the university' for two
• V r\7ki , o klng pi ? rt ln "earh- every branch
ot athletics and made a good showing in
the A anderbilt-Mlssissippi game last vear
Last season Coach Nathan Stauffer used
mtn at right tackle, but DeTracy has de
cided to push him into backfield service
where at halfback, besides carrying the
ball, he will be able to use his toe.
GRIM PLANNING TO GO
BACK TO LYNCHBURG
LYNCHBfRG. A A.. Oet. 3. John .1
Grim, the Irish comedian of the national
pastime, who managed Newport News a
portion of the past season In the Virginia
league, is spending some time here with
his Wife, who is visltng her home folks.
Front what can be learned about the
movement of Grim he is laving his plans
to Isml a berth tn the Virginia league for
1913 for himself, and if he gets it he will
be back at Lynchburg next season.
Manager Chance Picks Tesreau
To Be Hero of World's Series
By Frank L. Chance.
Manager of Chicago Cubs.
MGRAW’S men should win
the world's championship.
Jeff Tesreau, the husky
young pitcher, should be the big
man of the series, and I do not
mean only in a physical sense,
either. But I figure Larry Doyle is
likely to develop into one of the
big stars. It is upon Tesreau. how
ever, that I base my belief, and it
will amount ’to a certainty If he
gets away with the first game.
AVorld’s series present some
strange baseball spectacles. It is
history that almost every one Is
won by the individual feats of some
man. For that reason I place so
much dependence in Tesreau.
Go back a few yews. In 1909
the Pirates and the Tigers met.
The wonderful work of "Babe”
Adams has not been forgotten and
will not be by the fans of this gen
eration. He was the great big man
of that series. It was his pitching
which made' the Pirates the world's
champions.
In the year of 1910 the Cubs
were the victims of one man and
that man was the youthful Eddie
Collins. His batting, his fielding,
his base running and his ability to
get away with everything that he
undertook had more to do with
the victory of the Athletics than
any other factor that entered into
the play of those games.
Tesreau Picked as Star.
His work in that series may not
stand out as promising as did that
of Adams in 1909, but we who play-
The work can't come
too hard for the
Blacksmith when he has
a fresh chew of satisfying
Drummond.
aafaaKMwEßSjjK.
DRUMMOND
natural leaf
CHEWING TOBACCO I
g
ed on the losing side were every
bit as conscious of it.
Last year it was Baker. The slug
ger of the Athletics emerged as
the great big man of the series.
It was Baker’s bat which decided
the pitching duels.
Unless the unexpected happens
some one man will stand out above
ail the others In this coming seri «
I pick Tesreau for the reason that
he has pitched some remarkable*
ball against us this season and I
think I know what a great young
twirler he Is.
Should he start the series, and I
would- send him to the mound If
he belonged to the Cubs and w»
were in the series, the first gamz
will count more than usual.
The one thing that can be count
ed against Tesreau is his inexpe
rience. It doesn’t make a great
deal of difference what tempera
ment a ball player possesses, he
is bound to become a trifle nervous
when playing such a short series
for such high stakes.
It’s the ambition of every ambi
tious ball player to become a mem
ber of a world’s championship team.
He wants to be able to say that
he played with a team w+iich won
the highest honors of the diamond
and that he assisted in winning
them. That’s natural. That thought
is with one night and day.
First Battle Counts Much.
There is the chance that Tes
reau will suffer in the first game of
the world’s series as the ordinary
youngster on the day that he
pitches his first major league game.
But if Tesreau-is cool and calm
and gets away with a win I think
the fellows fffim Boston will have
their work cut out for them.
