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ABE ATTELL HITS
THE CHUTES FOR
OBLIVION
By Otto C. Floto.
ABE ATTELL is about through.
The old cunning Abe is absent
The former champion attempts to
make his arms and feet do stunts that
hla mind dictates. The mind Is still
Milling and alert, but the body re
fuses to act as of old. Attell, the for
mer clever champion, is shooting the
chutes into oblivion.
Abe Has Gone Far Back.
Time was when this same Attell
could have taken all the feather, as
well as all the lightweights In Gotham
«nd thrashed them in the same ring
But times have changed, and as the
years creep one after another on top of
the head of the young San Francisco
Hebrew he begins to slow up, and the
speed with which he placed many a
winning battle in the columns of suc
cess is lacking.
It was this speed that always proved
the essential ingredient In the make
up of Abe. Without ft he Is but an
ordinary' boxer; with it he was a real
champion. When he was introduced
the other night from the ring in New
York with Young Corbett and Terry
McGovern, Joe Humphries eloquently
said: "The three greatest men that
ever wore the featherweight crown." It
must have made Abe feel rather creepy
to be numbered with those that have
passed away The three were certain
ly wonders In their day. Corbett and
McGovern have long ago acknowledged
Father Time as their master. Attell
is still hanging on, but by so slight a
margin that It won’t take years—simply
months —to place him with his old pals.
Attell Old in Experience.
Attell is not old in years. He is
young In fact. Rut in experience he Is
as ripe as an old stage coach driven
across the plans In the early days be
fore the railroad drove the Indians and
buffalo from our frontier. He Is world
ly wise in all that It Implies Whether
this will lay up any checks for him In
the future remains to be seen He had
better get hold of all the "easy" ones
in sight if he hopes to add to the bank
account that one needs so badly when
hum and eggs are wanted on the break
fast table.
It's the old story, however, "they
don't come back" Attell has tiled to
condition himself. Rut when the acid
test comes in the ring—well, there is
something lacking, something that even
farm life fails to replace. In appear
ance Atteli's rejuvenation Is all that
could be wished. Hut after the sur
face has been scratched it fails to pro
duce any further "pay ore." That's all
THE BASEBALL CARD.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Philadelphia in Rnstoii
New York in Brooklyn «
standing of the Chibs.
W 1 !■<’ w I, p(.
N \orklo2 47 »'«5 I’hila. 73 77 ir;
V'burg 92 613 St I. H.t Rs 417
Chicago 90 7.9 fin I Br'kl'n k7 'M 377
’’ na li. 74 77 490 Boston .'*o no *.31
Yesterday’s Results.
New York 4. Brooklyn 3.
Philadelphia 13. Boston t
Chicago-Pittsburg, rain.
St. Louie-Cincinnati. off day 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
■james Today
" ashingion In New York
Boston in Philadelphia.
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standing of the Clubs.
P.C w I P.O
Busbiti. l'*4 4>, f,93 | C'laixl 74 77 490
'-‘IO Detroit. 69 xi ittn
hl* 7 '-I .593 SI J. 7'2 100 342
■ Chicago 75 76 .497 I Y ork 49 101 .327
F Yesterday's Restlfta.
h :-m 17. P •>..<l ( .lpbiH 7.
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‘ * louis 6.
Detrou J( ... rain.
Dryden Picks Walsh
To Pitch Every Game
Os Sox-Cubs Series
Says Deduction, Analysis, From
Charts and the “Big Reel"
Will Figure in the Seance.
By Charles Dryden.
OUR White Sox are now en
gaged In another cementing
expedition. They are now
in Detroit, 21 of them, personally
conducted by James John Callahan
and Secretary Conahan, and they
are playing a final series with the
Tigers. The outcome of this se
ries, while the Naps are battling
the Browns, will settle the vexed
question of fourth place. That is
the position the Sox are bent on
having, as there is nothing within
reach higher up and if James John
meets with any luck hts team
should finish there.
For two days just before the Sox
left home they were not idle There
wa.s nothing doing on their own
lot, but the vacant time was not
squandered. Bunches of Sox, in
cluding the manager, sat through
the doings on the West Side and
took lessons from the Pirates on
how to trim the Cubs. Bill Glea
son was there with his S7OO kettle,
clocking Cub base runners and
composing a form chart for the
guidance of Sox catchers.
The science of deduction and
analysis Is to figure in the cityffge
ries. In addition to the Gleason
form chart Ed Walsh * intends to
have samples of Harry Cheney’s
saliva analyzed. For two days run
ning the Pirates whacked I Arty
pretty hard and Walsh wants to
avoid whatever combination of
juice producers Cheney was using.
Not that Walsh has anything to do
with the Pirates, but saliva is
saliva the world over and a bloke
must be careful how he employs it
in a pinch.
Altizer Views Proceedings
Dare Devil Dave Altizer. the In
vincible Athlete, viewed the pro
ceedings. Dare Devil Dave would
make a first-class board of strate
gy. He has played on most of the
teams in /be I'nlted States and
should be able to hand out inside
stuff concerning the ability of any
athlete in the land. It is wrong for
the big leagues to overlook this
marvelous pastimer.
From now till the close, of the
tegular season .Manager Callahan
will be involved in the mental
throes of picking his team for the
city series. Cal said yesterday he
had the infield selected. Borton.
Hath. Weaver and Zeider have been
going smoothly in their respective
jobs and they are to tackle the
Cubs for glory and gate reeeipts.-lt
is a cinch that Shano Collins will
be among those cluttering up the
scenery itt the outfield and ripping
off long wallops at bat. As yet
Callahan is unable to decide on the
other two outfield positions. There
are no fences to be busted on the
West Side, but Ping Bodie might
put an awful dent In the tin litera
i tore surrounding the playing field.
• al has himself, Lord. Matti, k and
the fem e buster for two of the out
fit 'd jobs and the trouble is to grab
"ft tile t ight ones.
Pitching Problem Easy.
The pitching problem is easily
solved. Ed Walsh is to pitch the
opening game On the second day
( Callahan will com. right back with
the Rig Reel. It will then be time
< the Queen of the Great Lakes
to take a . ack al the Cubs. The
fourth -election points strongly to
the Big Moose, for it would then
r- ms turn If th- Sox lose one of
these four games it would be pulley
for Callahan to .all on Walsh
again, after four days of rest and
recuperation. Theie are five catch
ers t<> support the foti pitchers
m< ntioned, with Sullivan. Kuhn
and Scl.a l< the favor though
T. Easterly, laic of the Nape, i
net to be .Jint2ed at
THE ATI,ANTA GEORGIAN* ANT) NEWS. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1912.
Present Red Sox-Athietics Series Should Help Speed Boys
MACK’S MEN TO TIP OFF GIANTS’ WEAKNESSES
Philadelphia, oct. 4.—The
series that the Red Sox
opened yesterday against
the Athletics should one of
great benefit to Stahl’s men and
should put them right on edge for
the world's series.
Larry Gardner, it is believed, will
be able to play in this series. If
not, he will be held until Saturday
to play then, in order that he may
get his hand in after his enforced
layoff on account of a broken little
finger he sustained in the last series
at Detroit ten days ago.
Manager Griffith did not give the
Red Sox any great practice with his
players. The Red Sox hoped to
have Johnson against them for hat
ting practice, but Griffith sent in
pitchers that have proved wild and
the Speed Boys had to Jump for
their lives on various occasions.
They could not afford to take any
chance of getting hit on the head
with a pitched ball at this stage of
the game. As It is. several were
tapped.
The Red Sox expect a good deal
of aid and information from Connie
Mack and his players as to the best
methods of tackling the Giants. All
the “dope" that the Mackmen have
up their sleeves will be handed to
Stahl, Wagner and Carrigan, who
form the Red Sox board of strate
gy. The Red Sox pitchers will also
be taken in tow by Coombs. Plank
and Bender and all the weaknesses
of the Giants as learned from the
world's series of last year, will he
at the disposal of the Boston twirl
ers.
To Play Giants' Style of Game.
Moreover, the Mackmen have
been ordered to play against the
Red Sox as nearly as possible the
kind of game the Giants put up
against the Athletics in the world's
series of 1911. The Giants' methods
of running bases will be followed
as closely as possible. Os course,
it is realized that McGraw is too
shrewd a manager to stick to one
system and doubtless he will be on
the lookout to shift his mode of at
tack whenever the opportunity of
fers. However, a team like this
year's New York aggiegation lias
been trained and coached like last
year's team and there are hundreds
of points of similarity. The same
men who lined up against the Ath
letics last fall will cross bats with
the Red Sox. They haven't changed
their style and they can not do it
at a minute's notice. Therefore,
generally speaking, the tactics that
won for the Athletics last year
should win for the Red Sox this
year.
It will be a grand help to the Red
Sox to have the advice of Connie
Mack and his players The Ath
letics are able now to tell all they
know of the National league oppo
nents When the Red Sox and Ath
letics met last, in the series at Bos
ton. Mack thought he had a chance
to beat the Speed Boxs out for the
American league honors. He hud
no time, nor was time asked, to tell
what lie knew of the Giants. But
now. with the pennant race settled,
ami tlie Red Sox undisputed win
ners of the race. Mack and his men.
in their loyalty to the American
league, will tell Stahl and his play
ers all they know of the Nation.-
league opponents.
Gotham Fans Take Heart.
Dispatches from New York indi
cate that the Gotham fans have
taken heart in the last 24 hours and
they now profess to believe the se
ries will go the full seven games.
This, however, is an indication that
they have not that cock-sure feel
ing that the Giants will run away
with the honors as was the case
last year
it is recalled that a year ago one
New York baseball repot ter had the
temerity to size up the Giants and
Athletics in print, and contrary to
all th-’ other experts, he gave it as
Ids opinion rli.it the Ath'etiis bad
the bitter chance to win. Tilt re- »
All McGraw Asks Is a Little Luck
“My I earn Best in Country”—Stahl
JAKE STAHL SAYS:
My team has played consistent
baseball throughout the American
league season and it will play con
sistent ball in the big series. The
same kind of ball which won the
American league pennant will take
the world's championship. I be
lieve that my pitching staff is the
best in the country. My players
ate all fast and hard hitters. Speed
and batting win games. I am sure
that I have the best team in the
country today and that the result
of the world's series will confirm
this statement.
suit was he was flooded with in
sulting letters from fans who told
him he ought to go and soak his
head, asked him where he ever
learned to write baseball and so on
and so on. Os course the writer
had the last laugh.
But Stahl and his men are not
concerned about the opinion of the
New York fans, or that of the New
York players either, for that mat
ter. What they are confining their
attention to is the plan for winning
the series. They will gladly accept
the advice of Mack and his men. it
is expected that the weakness and
strength of each New York player
will be gone over in detail. The
pitchers and catchers of the Athlet
ics will be able to tell about the
kind of balls the Giants like and
the kind they don't like.
Conference of Southpaws.
Eddie Plank will take Ray Col
lins, his brother left-hander, in tow
and tell him how he pitched to this
man and that man. Bender will
[baseball
Diamond News and Gossip
Connie Mack has relented in Rube Old
ring's case and has placed that worthy
back in good standing. It is specifically
understood between player and mana
ge! that there is to be no more dallving
with the suds.
♦ # *
It seems llkelx that both Boston and
Xe\s Y ork will boast a pennant winner
anti a tail ender apiece.
♦ ♦ *
Bill Carrigan and Gardner, of the
Red Sox, are still nursing split fingers,
and can hardly be in topnotch shape for
the series.
♦ • •
Nap Lajoie says that Joe Wood is win
ning because he has a great team behind
him. ami that Walter Johnson is an in
finitely better pitcher. This is interest
ing. but has no great bearing on the
world's series puzzle
• • •
Thr national commission has about put
the kibosh on Jeff Tesrcau's plans to take
a trip to Cuba with Bob Rigler's team.
• • •
The t’oveleskie pitching for the Ath
letics is Stanie. a brother of Harrv
• • •
r r<ie series for the championship of St.
1.0',L will be a battle of Che barnacles.
At that the Cardinals should cop. Anv
tea n ought to win a series from the
Browns.
• ♦ *
Redding, the recruit pitcher that the
Cardinals have used in three recent
games, two of which hr won, comes from
the Columbus. Miss. team, of the Cot
ton States league
It isn't often that a pitcher gets an
assist on a strike out— but sometimes.
Eor instance. In a recent Red-Cardinal
game, Mmeida struck out The catcher
dropped the ball and then lost it. The
pitcher, Redding, saw rhe predicament,
rushed for the hall, and fielded it to
first before Almeida waked up to what
had happened.
MIKE FINN FORMALLY
NAMED GULL MANAGER
MOBILE. ALA. Oct 4 -The Mobile
Baseball association has elected the fol
lowing officers for the siason of
Alfred Staples. preshlent; \V <>. Lott,
Vico president. Charles Poisson, secretary
and treasurer al' ■ Mobil*, an.l MTbuel
Finn. of Little. Kock. Ark., manager.
JOHN McGRAW SAYS;
II make no predictions, but the
boys are confident of victory. If
we get an even break in luck, I
think we ought to win. but luck
plays a big part in a short series.
I feel that I have a better ball club
than Stahl, but every man natu-
> rally prefers a strong opponent.
< The boys have fight in them and
J they will not give up. They have
£ had the experience of one world
> series and will net look like a
s bunch of novices this time. I look
$ for a New York victory.
tell Joe Wood which of the New
Yorkers are powerless against
speed, and so on through the list.
There is a weakness about Jeff
Tesreau that the Red Sox players
have been put wise to, and that is
his liberality with bases on balls.
It would seem that he has not the
best control with his spitball. Tes
reau has given 96 bases on balls in
31 games. In the world’s series it
is expected that he will have even
more difficulty i.i locating the plate.
This is his first year in big league
company, and this fact, coupled
with the excitement of the series,
it is figured, will not do his control
a bit of good.
Tesreau Hard to Beat.
If Jeff keeps hjs head, and is
able to control the spitball, his rec
ord shows he will be a hard man io
beat. Doubtless the Speed Boys
will give him every opportunity in
the world to present them with free
passes, unless, of course, this is
seen to be a losing game.
PLAY IN CLOSING GOLF
EVENT BEGINS TOMORROW
The final golf tournament of the year
will be started Saturday afternoon at feast
Lake when the qualifying round of the
tourney for the vice president's trophy
is played.
Players will qualify according to their
■ net scores.
The first and second rounds of match
play must be finished by October 11.
, The semi-finals must be played by Octo
> bcr 12. the finals by October 13.
McGOORTY TRAINS FOR
DENNINGAND GIBBONS
; NEW YORK. Oct 4 Eddie McGoorty,
of Oshkosh, Wis . claimant of the mid
dleweight championship, today established
trainmg quarters in Westchester coun
ty. where he will remain six weeks. On
I Monday night. McGoorty will box Jack
Denning, of New York, and on November
7 he will meet Mike Gibbons, the wel
s terweight champion.
MOTORISTS OF 3 STATES
OFF ON A
Lol ISVILLE. KY.. Oct. 4. —Automobil-
tsts of Kentucky. Indiana and Tennessee
joined in a "sociability run” todav to
Mammoth Cave, whera on Saturday a
, good roads meeting will be held. Fifty
cars made the run tront Louisville, pre
ceded by a “confetti car "
The Tennessee delegation made the run
front Nashville. Governor Hooper, of Ten
nessee. and a number of good roads ex
perts will deliver addresses at the meet
ing Saturday.
SOCCER PLAYERS WILL
BEGIN WORK SATURDAY
, Soccer football players will take their
first practice at 3 o'clock Saturday after
noon at Piedmont park.
A number of the men who made up
the club last year met last night at A
G. Spalding's store and reorganized for
the year Another meeting will be
held next Thursday night at the same
place.
CORBETT OUT OF DANGER.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4. .lames .1
Corbett was pronounced practically out
of danger to.la» at th* Jefferson hospital
"here '■< underwent «•> operation for
arpvndkitls fuesda\ tught.
Tech Team Is Off for
Charleston; Will Have
Hard Game Saturday
Their Opponents Are Second-
Raters, But Have Sprung
Lot of Surprises.
THE Yellow Jackets got away
this morning at 7 o’clock over
the Seaboard for a jaunt to
Charleston, if they have good luck
they may get there inside of 24
hours, but there’s no counting on it.
Owing to the strike on the Georgia
road, they can not take the normal
route to Charleston, and will be
routed around over the shortest re
maining route, which is anything
but short.
Saturday afternoon, at Charles
ton, Tech takes on the Citadel
team. Naturally, this game should
be a victory for the local eleven,
but there’s no telling. In 1909
Georgia took on Citadel in an early
game, and the Red and Black was
grievously surprised by a scoreless
tie. Last year the same thing hap
pened to Mercer, only more so. The
Baptists couldn’t score, but Citadel
made a touchdown against them
and won the game. Something like
that may happen Saturday.
The men who made the trip, be
sides Coach Heisman, Professor
Coon and Manager Porter were
Captain Leurman, left tackle; Cook,
left half; Loeb, center; Means, left
end; Colley, right tackle; Montague
right guard: Fielder, right half;
McDonald, full back; Thomason,
quarter back; Hutton, left end; Go
ree, right end. and Goebel, Welenel,
Hodges and Stegall as substitutes.
For the first time in three years,
the scrub team has tied the varsity
in a regular game. This happened
yesterday. The varsity scored it.
the third quarter, and the scrubs
put one across in the last few min
utes of play, making the score 6 to
6. The scrub team, under Coacn
Alexander, is going weli and V.ill
make all prep teams sit up and take
notice.
HEINE BUSCH WILL GO
BACKJO PETERSBURG
PETERSBURG, VA„ Oct. 4—Heine
Busch, of Cincinnati, who managed the
Petersburg team in the Virginia baseball
league during the past season, will be at
the helm again next season. Busch had
a chance at the managership of the Oak
land (Cal.) club.
Motorists Attention
beginning Saturday morning we will place on sale
our entire stock of Motor Apparel, Motor Millinery,
Lap Robes and Blankets.
I his is your opportunity to secure vour winter
supply of apparel at wholesale prices.
*
X\e will not reserve any articles, but will sell the
entire line at cost.
I his is brought about by our derision to discon
tinue motor apparet, that we rnav give our entire al*
tention to our general line of auto supplies.
W e are ready to produce invoices to prove ulir
prices are at cost.
'H" Gewinner Company
ami®
PROPOSITION
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By W. W. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. |... JIS
Parente did not come througi
with that first deposit of sio.on<i
yesterday.
Louis is the man who. on the pre
ceding day, created a Hutter in sport
dotn by announcing that he had de
cided to offer Wolgast and Willie
Ritchie a purse of $25,000 out of his
own pocket.
He explained that it went against
the grain, with him, to see all the
good matches getting away from San
Francisco and that he Intended to place
this city on the map again as the hub
of the boxing universe.
He declared that he wanted to put
Wolgast and Ritchie in the ring
Thanksgiving day and said he would
produce SIO,OOO of the promised amount
by two of the clock yesterday.
Then Did Louis Disappear.
Shortly after saying all this Louis
disappeared. He has not been seen by
any one since— at least not by any one
who is willing to bear witness to the
fact.
He has left a waiting world in doubt.
Some persons are inclined to think t.iat
Parente merely made his bld for the
sake of the advertising it would bring
him and that he had no intention of
producing any of the little gold discs
that jingle when you bounce them.
Others believe that he meani busi
ness while the fit was on him. but that
after the cool night breeze played upon
his brow he became appalled at his o«m
reckless liberality and took to the
woods.
It Was a Hard Chase.
Billy Nolan. manager of Will
Ritchie, acquired spavin trailing after
Parente yesterday. At Parente's sa
loon in the North Beach district they
told Nolan that Parente had gone t"
El Verano on urgent business. A long
distance phone to El Verano brought
the information that Parente was not
there and was not expected there.
"Seems as if he won't be much use
to me If I do find him,” muttered No
lan dejectedly, and he probably hit the
right nail.