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Baseball Is a Game of Alibis
And Fogel a Sausage-C. Dryden
By Charles Dryden.
Chicago, oct. 3. wiiat i« the
national pastime «e hoar so
much about? To the wild ass
of the bleachers and the cornferS
booh in the boxes it Is a game of
science, skill and saliva between
two teams of profusely illustrated
young men with red necks and
freckles. To the insider the whole
Institution, from top to bottom, is
founded on hull con. booze, bone
heads and alibis; and the 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 painfid
conclusion. Because the Phillies did
not win the pennant Plm li Presi
dent Fogel of that powerful organi
zation 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 he hull
con, booze, bonehead or alibi, or an
aggravated attack of all four, we
ate unable to state. One thing is
certain: Hon. Fogel should be pos
ing as the star model in a sausage
factory instead of besmirching the
national pastime in all its beauty
and purity. Likewise innocence
"Herrmann’s Case Pathetic."
The case of Mr. Herrmann is pa
thetic He. too. is in the alibi class,
having complained to President
Lynch that Umpire Finneran
cussed Player Egan instead of
Player Egan cussing tlie umpire
Because of this discrepancy in the
dope developed in the last week of
the season, the unhappy Reds failed
to cop the pennant Curses! The
plaint of 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 is said Mr Herrmann can read
the label on any bottle in any Eng
lish-speaking buffet In the United
States. What is more to the point
Larry McLeiui, the brilliant young
Red backstop, has been known to
inhale the gasoline night and day
for weeks and week- and still keep
from skidding The alibi in this
case is complete
Poor Mr. H dm - is to lie pitied.
He is tl’.i victim of a wicked con
spiracy. Every year he purchases
forty or fifty bush league artists
at $3 pet head, though other clubs
in the same league sometimes go
as high as $4.50 per promising
young athlete on the hoof. At the
start of each season the Browns
plunge to the bottom and stay
there. The reason for this is that
the American league umpires have
instructions to give the Browns the
shoe pnd of all decisions. The
Idea is to drive Mr Hedges out of
the baseball business and compel
him to peddle Salvation Army song
hits for a bare übsistence. Say,
can you beat it"
"Rum-Crazed Cubs Win Flags."
We now touch on the melancholy
sorrows of Mr Murphy. His rum
crazed ruins won four pennants and
■ two big flags while the milk-fed
Sox. full of cheese tumors landed
one pennant and one world s Hag
The last word in alibi is due to the
fact the Cubs were unable to grab
all the pennants what is. Again,
curses! Never has the alcoholic
alibi pestered Mr. t’omlskey and
caused him to squirm and welch.
In the eyes of Mr. Murphy a plat
ter of Bursaparilla is greater than
a bonded warehouse within the
broader vision of the convivial Mt
Comlskey. What at, a few birrels
of booze to th« <>ld Roman lb
Ib the modern Messes who simtes
the bung instead of the and
refreshments gush forth
Mr. <'oml>ket is trut port.
The anm x to his oflic< i-< mt f
throne room, fitted with buttons
that exude liquids when pushed.
When the burden and heat of the
pastime are ended the faithful
creep into the throne room, sit at
the feet of Mr. < 'omiskey, 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
themnext season. Hope and high
balls seethe eternal in the human
chest down where the White, Sox
slump.
"Murphy Broods Alone.”
Let us take a peek at the office
of Mr, Murphy, In the loop dis
trict. surrounded with sink holes of
Iniquity and gilded rum palaces.
There is a five-gallon bottle of
pure spring water inverted on a fil
ter »>f cracked ice, but the Cubs do
not care 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
won 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
The thirst renovators of Chicago's
south side have a new drink called the
"Cui> corktail." It Is said to consist of
a glass of water with a bear's hair in it.
• • •
Severold is catching poorly for the Reds
and Larry McLean is greatly missed
• • •
McGraw hit it right on the beak when
he said that Fogel and Murphy ought to
be "muffled. " It would be murder,
though, for to muffle Horace and Charles
would bo to kill them.
• • •
The Reds will barnstorm a bit as usual,
but not for long Their schedule calls
for three days of play after the season
ends.
• « •
Ed Konetehy's three-year contract is
out this tear and he will naturallv make
a play for a big raise Undoubtedly, he's
worth it.
• « *
Umpire Finneran. suspended for using
foul language on the held, will probably
work in the Eastern league next year,
lie has been in hot water fnost of the
season, but he hung on largely because
of the sympathy felt for him because of
the Magee Incident
• • •
There's one sure thing about the
world's series; It will not turn out the
wax folks think It's going to Another
sure thing is that nobodx will admit It
either.
• • •
M bat the Crackers need is not a higher
salary limit, but more placers who will
earn their salaries
* • •
Things have broken miserablx for Neal
Ball He was canned by Cleveland and
grabbed by the Red Sox Then he
smashed a finger and got a nice rest
Hut nothing has happened that will keep
him from getting his slice of the world's
scries cash
• • •
.lake Stahl’s Red Sox had a hard race
this year But think of the battle that
the \thletics. the White Sox. the Naps
and the Senators are likely to give them
next year
• • •
■loe Tinker is voted too crabbed for the
;ob of managing the Cubs Same for .1.
livers. But then. Husk Chance was con
'■iderable of a sour face himself -and he
g'>t by mighty well
• • •
Si Louis experts consider that it is
ridiculous to run the anti-booze clause
in the Browns contracts They sav the
S' L. uls players could do as well drunk
as sober
• • «
Horace Fogel has a scheme for paving
' - ; "'.'hers so much for each game they
'• rk which would be all right, except
that It is against the laws of baseball
• • •
Thu Giants Lav» slumped and are due
'* * *' in< t< lift The Ked Sox are due
• umj If hi yb<»dy ran foresee the
< xa<'t e< r.iitlon of th« two teams when
erur th« t ng they can dope out
the w-uhi s berles
< 4 r \» v Y<’rk baseball writer has al
reads p;< k»*d the I‘iratea to win the pen
nant next \«ar it tie National league
It ■■ .i fair g-uess. too but whv the pre
< ipitation?
TM national • -umtssi.ii ls holding out
‘ r fur the im.vnpicture privi
• at th» world's strio and nobodx is
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1912.
Athenians Have Best Chance of Career to Beat Vanderbilt This Year
VANDY WEAKER THAN USUAL, GEORfiIA STRONGER
By Percy H. Whiting.
4 Z AAN Georgia beat Vander-
I bilt?” 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 Georgia yet
this year.
It 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 wins over the Com
modores they will play better foot
ball than ever they have played in
our day and time.
• ♦ «
rj UT here's the intersting point:
U 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 1 60-
minute game.
If. as seems probable. Georgia
has this fall the greatest of its
football teams. then it surely
has a look-in with Vanderbilt and
may win.
• • •
I ASKED Dan MeGugin point
blank what he thought of the
Georgia-Vanderbilt game. "Well,”
said Dan, “it’s a hard game to fig
ure. You have to consider condi
tion an awful lot in an early game
like that one. Now, we can’t well
dare 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, we have
to round the team into condition
slowly. Georgia, on the other hand,
with a rather 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 fit for
the Vanderbilt game. It may cost
him other games. But then, of
course, I understand how keen he
is to beat us.
“So it works ou this way," con
tinued Dan: "We have a fair team
with a good back field, no line to
speak of. a new quarterback, no
punter, no man experienced 'n
kicking off and nothing spectacular
about it. and this team we shall
have to take, half condition, to At
lanta for a game witli Georgia. The
Georgia team has marvelous pos
sibilities and will give any team
in the country an awful argument.
It will be in fine condition for the
game with us.
"It is always within the possi
bilities that Georgia wjjl beat Van
derbilt. If the Georgia men do not
become overconfident through early
successes and if they play their
level best against us. it is likely
enough that they can get*the best
of It.
"Rut. of course," added MeGu
gin at the finish of the talk, "I
think Vanderbilt will win."
• • •
npHERE arc a lot of reasons why
‘ Vanderbilt has the advantage.
In the first place, it has the expe
rience. MeGugin gets most of his
material from first-class prep
schools. Rut at that he seldom
uses a man the first year he is tn
college. Generally Dan draws his
new varsity men from subs and
scrubs of the previods season. The
freshmen are put on the scrub
team and learn V anderbilt football
under a Vanderbilt coach, playing
against the Vanderbilt varsity. Aft
er a year or two of that sort of
work, they are placed on the regu
lar team. And by that time they
are ripe.
When 1 watched the Commodores
practicing last week it was amaz
ing to sec the number of great,
big, strapping chaps, with good
• Vandy Team Has Been •
•Terror From the Start:
• •
• In tackling tha 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 be«n playing foot- •
• ball for 22 years and in that time •
• has scored 3,878 points to its op- •
• ponents' 800. Os the gam®s played •
• Vanderbilt has won 774, lost 34 •
• and tied 10, One noticeable fact •
• is that Vanderbilt has never been •
• beaten by an Eastern team. The •
• Commodores played Yale, the •
• Navy and the Indians. Vanderbilt •
• has defeated its ancient rivals, the •
• Sewanee Tigers, fifteen times. Se •
• wanee was returned the winner six •
• times, while twice the score was •
• tied. •
• 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: •
• Year. Vanderbilt. Opp On. •
• 1904 452 4 •
• 1905 372 22 •
• 1906 278 .16 •
• 1907 . . •
• 1908 207 61 •
• 1909 250 24 •
• 1910 147 2 •
• 1971 .259 9 •
• 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 68 to 4, but Michi- •
• gan won 18 to 0; 1906, Carlisle In- •
• dians we r e defeated 4to 0, but •
• Michigan won 10 to 4; 1907, An- •
• napolis was tied at 0 to 0, Michi- •
• gan won 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, •
• Mississippi's safety was the only •
• score against the Commodores, •
• Yale was played to a 0 to 0 tie: •
• 1911, Michigan was the Only team •
• to score against the locals, the •
• Wolverines winning 9 to 8. •
•••••••••••••••••••••••••a
prep school records, who were
herded along with the general run
of freshmen and were running sig
nals with the third or fourth team,
if these men had turned up at Tech
or at Mercer, they would have been
welcomed with a brass band and
given a place on the varsity. At
Vanderbilt they get another year
of scrub team seasoning, maybe
two. before they are placed on the
varsity. Then they know football.
It is unlikely that any Southern
team ever knows as much football
as the Commodores.
It was this very knowledge of
football that enabled the Commo
dores to tie with Yale last year.
Said a man who saw the game:
"It was amusing to see the way
the Yale men were 'sucked in.*
When Yale had the ball the quar
terback would observe a nice gap
in Vanderbilt’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 was sat down upon by about
ten men at once. It wasn't until
the game was nearly over that the
Yale men realized thej were being
played for suckers by what they
considered a raw country team.'”
It is likeh that Vanderbilt will
have the advantage in age It isn’t
improbable that Georgia will have
the advantage in weight. In the
matter of speed none can tell, to a
certainty
Offenslvelj the two teams are
uiaivelousij brilliant. McWhorter,
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
A it is hard to say where the ad
vantage will lie. Vanderbilt’s line
is not up to the usual mark. It
hasn’t a vast deal of weight and tn
knowledge of the game and gen
era! 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 McGugin. 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 vasn’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.
McGugin knows better than any
body else that Vanderbilt’s game
with Georgia in Atlanta will be one
of its toughest this season. And he
will prepare fo.r It as carefully as
he dares.
It will be 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,
ts 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, KT, Oct. 3.—Floral Hal!
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 riding
horses that Is coming this week in two
divisions The Cleveland division will
cpm p ri«e Lou Dillon. 1.58 t,; Chian. 1.58*1 •
H? rve f te £ 2.01; Charley MitchelL
Fon W 0,!^; Lou Billings.
iOS**. Haman and Slats. The other di-
Trli’t. W .i, lnclude the famous Orloff
nn?l ka ’ Presented to Mr
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BARKER BACK AT MISS.;
WILL PLAY A HALFBACK
„ OX ™V IBS .’,’ Oct "Rube ” Bark
er, All-Southern lineman of 1911, has re-
Oxfo r? a U d "J 11 a * aln hold down
a position on the football team, much to
the gratification of Coach DeTracy. Bark
er has been at the university for two
t V t ,n . nearl - v eviry branch
of athletics and made a good showing in
the 5 anderbflt-Mlssfsslppf game last year
Laat season Coach Nathan Stauffer used
h <!P/\ right tack,e * b ut DeTracy has de
cided to push him into backfield service.
at besides carrying the
ball, he will be able to use his toe.
GRIM PLANNING TO GO
BACK TOJ-YNCHBURG
LYNCHBCRG. VA„ Oct. S.-John J
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 thne here with
his wife, who is visltng her home folks
From what can be learned about the
movement of Grim he is laying his plans
to land a berth in 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 Erank 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.
.World'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 years. 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 Piiates 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 W|
Blacksmith when he has
a fresh chew of satisfying CjLy * '*jl
Drummond.
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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.
Unlesj the unexpected happens
some one man will stand out above
all .the others in this coming series.
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 we
were in the series, the first game
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 which 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 from Boston will have
their work cut out for them.