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Giants Have Edge in Battery
Men; But It’s Not a Big One
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T TOW yuh bettin’ on the I
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Thin bromidiom calls |
the debating club to order on the
street comer, in .the office of any
place where men can pause for a
moment The affirmative grabs off
a generoue allotment of time for
the opening argument and leads off
with, for instance, this harangue
They're all taking Sox. just like
they all talked Jeffries. And the
Giants are going to surprise them,
just like Johnson did And I'll tell
>ou why. Joe Wood is Boston's
one best bet If he's off’tolor it's
good-night. Sox! Now, listen You
know what winning nineteen
straight did to Marqttard. And
Joe Wood has just finished the
American league's record run.
Weil, tile nervous strain has got
him so wabbly that
So wabbly that the Yankees
hammered him for a total of two
hits in tile first game he pitched
alter his run was broken. He's so
Wabblj that his Jump ball wabbles
out of the way when a batter wings
at it. Yes. lie's gone o fai back
that they would begin making hits
off him if they could unit see the
ball when he shoots it over.
"That’s all right. The Yankees
ie a bunch of dubs. I tell you
that record of Wood's has put him
on tlie blink for the series. As 1
wns going to say, in a short series
it's all in the pitching, and you've
got to have men you can depend
upon The Giants can depend on
Mathewson and Tesreau. Tesreau
is the .sensation of this season. He
has got better evert day aince
spring, and the way hA*s going now
they can never stop him. And
Mathewson is the greatest pitcher
in the world,”
"Maybe he is. considering what
he has done in the past But what
a mam used to be able to do won t
count in deciding the baseball
championship of the world."
"All right. Yap say Matty used
to he the greatest. Well, he’s as
good today as he uhd to be and
the figures show it. What do you
think of that? Last year he won
24 games and lost 12. This year
he has won 26 and lost 13- just the
same percentage—and this year he
has had the greatest control in the
world, averaging less than one base
on balls to a game, and, moreover,
he has had more games kicked
away by bad support this year than
ever before.”
It's Up to the Pitchers.
The debaters are certainly r.ght
about the importance of pitching
in a short series like the great
classic. The death-dealing war club
of John Franklin Baker relegated
box work to th< shadows last
year, but most world's aeries are
like those which were featured b\
the twirling of Bill Deneen, Mor
decal Brown, Jack Coombs, Ed
Walsh, Christy Mathewson and
Babe Adams. Mathewson is the
greatest of all w. s. heroes He
set a mark for them all to shoot
at when he won three straight
shutout triumphs over the Athlet
ics in 1905. He had the White El
ephants eating out of his great
right paw. He beat Eddie Plank
3-0 tn the first game, trimmed Andy
Coakley 9-0 in the third game and
blanked the great redskin. Chief
Bender, 2-9 in the fifth and decid
ing game of the setii s
Bedient, who Will likely be
Btahl's third choice 1n the box. with
Joe Wood and Rax Collins, makes
a mighty strong looking triph alb
an< e. but "mighty strong' describes
New York's slab squad, too
There is no gainsaying tin fact
that Mathewson Is still th< steady,
reliable boxman he wan of old, an
that he is pretty certain to pitch
at least one brilliant game against
th* Sox The b< st pitcher in the
world would have his hands full
opposing Jeff Tesreau, ami then
there Is Ruhr Maixiuard. It is fat
f on Impossible mat the holder of
_ 4
| victories will prove the hero of the
series.
Pitchers Are Even.
Everything considered, it. is non
sense to say that either one of
these pitching staffs outclasses the
other They are just about equal.
This would be by no means true
if Joe Wood vu re to suffer a reac
tion on account of his record run.
but. judging from the way he
pitched against the Highlanders,
his slump lasted about as long as
the flight of a shooting star across
the sky.
Ray Collins, the second best
pitcher ity the Stahl crew, while
not generally figured as formidable
is either Mathewson or Tesreau.
is a consistent winner and his
portside delivery may prove even
,m r" effective against the Giants
| than Wood's right-handed smoke
balls; foi Hie Giants do not hit
up to form against fork-hand fing
ers, in the post-season series
p'ayed by the Giants and Red Sox *
in 1909 Mathewson defeated Wood,
but was conquered by Collins. The
sturdj Vermont youth won undying
fame in Boston In that victory
over Mails. He held the Gotham
ites to five scattered hits two of
which were decidedly lucky ones.
While Collin- has not had world's
series experience, this previous ap
pearance against the Gothamites
will tend to make him feel at home,
and. anyway, his record shows him
in file light of a tine riser to big
occasions. He has done his best
work in crucial games.
Bedlent's excellent record for the
season places him on a par as a
rescue man with old Doctor Otis
Crandall. New York’s most illus
trious savior of losing games.
HESS WINS EIGHTH IN
ROW FOR PILGRIM CLUB
Ymi van talk about your Marquards.
you. Johnsons and yout Woods, but
the most marvelous of all the pitching
performances of the year has betn pull
ed b\ two-headed Otto Hess, fnrnii'i
Pelican pitcher, who arose Horn lln
grave this year and who lias just fin
ished eight straight wins for the Bos
ton Nationals team
If H< -s had been a man of reasonable
ag< it might have been different. But
he's old He did grand work for New
Orleans last teal, but not one man in a
million supposed that he could get back
in fast company and win any garni s.
He did, however, and lie won them fol
tin- worst team in modern baseball, the
Pilgrims of Boston
V'tdy. this Otto Hess is a wonder
YALE PLAYS SYRACUSE.
NEW HAVEN. CONN. Oct a. \
hard struggle was in store for Yaje this
afternoon in tin game with Syracuse
football eleven Captain Spalding be
lieves that the Blue is able to win.
THE BASEBALL CARD.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Pbilaaeipbia in Boston
New York in Brooklyn
Pittsburg In Cincinnati
St Louis In Chicago
Standing of ths Clubs.
W I. PC W L PC
N York 102 48 i.BO Phlla 73 78 488
P'burg 92 58 .613 St I. 63 88 117
vfiiicago 'lO 5» 601 Br ki n 58 94 .882
C'nati 74 77 t9O Boston 51 101 .336
Yesterday's Results.
Boston 14. Philadelphia 2
Brooklyn X. New York 3
4 ithers not scheduled
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
•'a t ,i>. in I tetrolt
cb-vsland In St. Ixiuis
Washingion n Vow York
Boston in Philadelphia
Standlna of the Clubs.
W 1. Pc W L PC
Boston :ul 47 689 t e land 74 77 iM .
Wash **l 60 sOll I Detroit 69 82 157
I’ldln <0 ill .«,<•. Ht I. 52 100 :U2 '
Chicago ;» 7t. Mm •< York 40 102 ..'125
Yesterday’s Results
A a-i. rigion <. x, w York
PhllaoelphiH I Boston "
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Clevvland-ht. Louis not scheduled,
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN A XT) NEWS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1912.
World’s Best Teams I
FIRST (illN IN Bl
By Monty.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5. —Only three
more days before the Red
Sox. come whirling down
from the Hub, sweep out upon the
Polo grounds and close Into dead
ly grapple with the Giants for the
highest honors in the baseball
world. While 40,000 fans emit a
mighty roar, th< re will begin what
promises to be the be st old world's
series in the history of the annual
classic.
Are the Bostonians -a stronger
team that were the Athletics of a
year ago?
How much stronger are the
Giants than twelve months back?
A man ivho could answer these
questions would be able to pick the
winner, just like that. But it re
mains for Fate alone to decide
wl-at shall be the truthful reply,
the reply that fits the conditions,
that tells Correctly the relative
strength of the rivals under high
pressure in a battle of prime im
portance squeezed into the space
of a few short days
From the standpoint of person
nel alone, leaving out of consider
ation such things as temperament
and tactics, the problem*divides it
, self into four factors —pitchers,
catchers, infield and outfield. Fig
uring from any angle, the pitch
ing staffs >’®mpare practically
even if neither cracks and ascends
■ as the gas out of a broken balloon.
That much is conceded by all
ha*ds. Tesreau, .Mathewson and
Marquard 'oom up almost on the
.-.ime rung with Wood, Collins,
. Bedient and O’Brien, so they can
be passed over and tiie trail of the
dope be followed through the other
departments.
Giants Have the Catchers
The edge so far as catche s and
infielders are concerned belongs to
the Giants. The Red Sox have the
better of the outfield argument.
But there is no outclassing seen in
any of the wings, except where it
is balanced by the superiority of
the rival in other departments.
Tris Speaker. Ge.age Hooper and
UatTy Lewis fratm up into the
greatest trio of gardeners m the
same todav As a corps of fly
< hasers, abridgers of base hits and
throwers, they are without supe
riors. At attack thev are fiends
from the fiery furnace, this apply
ing to Speaker in particular.
.Murray, with his proneness to be
spectacular upon occasions, may be
a big factor in the series If be
finds himself not in such a slump
as he suffered in the last world's
' series, when he failed to hit any of
the Athletics' pitchers with effect.
He may offset some of the advan
tage of the Red Sox in lite garden
end of the affair. Snodgrass is a
good plugger. < onsistent but not
sensational. while Devore and
Becker, who will alternate in the
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Experts Cover Series for The Georgian
Ihe Georgian will have the greatest array '
of baseball talent representing it at the i
world's series that has ever covered such an s
affair for any Southern paper.
William A Smith, manager of the Atlanta '
baseball club, has been exclusively engaged s
and will report the games, play by play, for '
I'he Georgian extras. His reports will appear <
in no other papers. This is the first time that >
a man of real baseball prominence has ever i
| covered a series and reported it. play In play, (
for an.' paper Watch for this big exclusive j
feature in Ihe Georgian s baseball extras.
Three big league players will look out for ’
Tlo Georgian it the games Marquard. Mey
ers ami Carrigan So well are these im u known
Almost Ready for Final Tesi
10 BOMBARDMENT
remaining job. depending upon
whether the opposing pitcher is a
right-hander or a southpaw, are
just barely above the average.
Giant Infield Strong.
In the infield the all-around mer
its’ of the rival bear
about the same relation to each
other in inverse ratio. The Giant
quartet is efficient both ’in
run building and run killing. Odd
ly* enough, this fact seems to hold
true throughout the entire array
Where one man is superior to the
player of corresponding position on
the opposition in defense he also
bears the advantage in offense.
There is one spot in the inner
bulwarks that Is better taken care
of for the Red Sox than for the
.McGraw clan. This is shortstop,
| where Heime Wagner, Stahl's field
lieutenant, holds forth. Wagner is*
j a cat in speed. He gets going in
the direction of a ball batted to
-1 waid his territory, which is no
small area, like a lightning flash.
Wagner can cover more ground
even than the brilliant Arthur
Fletcher, his rival and Is quicker
to get rid of the ball and make it
v. hiz accurately toward the intend
ed target. He also is a more vaiu
l able man when his team has the
"ins," his noisy and peppery man
nerisms counting heavily in his fa
vor.
At tiie other three stations New
T ork looks to be all tu the merry,
although Larry Gardner can give
•'hafley Ruck Herzog a hot scram
ble for third base supremacy. Both
these fellows are good, game men.
with plenty of real baseball brains
as well as mechanical ability. Her
zog. if anything, is a trifle faster
and. therefore, gets tiie greater es
teem by a hair line.
Larry Doyle Is Yerkes’ superior
in every task that confronts a sec
ond baseman. Ginger, hard hit
ting. rapidity of movement, alert
ness, throwing and anything els®
you can natm —in all these Lar
ruping Larry is a better man than
"I Gotcha" Steve.
Merkle Has It on Stahl.
• lake Stahl, at first, though the
gallant leader of the victorious
| FOR FANS |
Terre Haute wants Mordeca! Brown as
manager. It was with this team that
Brown had his first professional engage
ment.
Rudy Hufswitt has had enough of base
ball. e.nd if he can find a regular job will
quit for good.
<ma Dodd. sent by Waco to Pittsburg,
has been turned over to Columbus.
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Tbrcp men are left on the Giant team
who took part in the world’s series of
1905 and all three are pitchers. Mathew
son. Ames and Wiltse.
DuflA of the Red Sox. has stolen
only seven bases this year a marvelous
record.
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\ hen brothers have played ball, the
oldeM has usually been the best. Tt
worked out that way with the Deleiiantvs,
Clarkson*. Clarkes. Walshs. Cobbs. Sw
ings and I'vers.
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I’p around Cincinnati a gent canvassed
i a train, so Bill Phelon says, for "an ex
pression of your opinions on the great bot
tle before the nation." When he counted
up the slips, he found-them just like this:
Taft 3. Wilson 1, Roosevelt 1. Giants 97,
Red Sox 115
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Which pitcher will McGraw start in the
world’s series’.’ Well, if you were Mc-
Graw, who would VOI" start? There isn’t
but one answer.
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Jeff Tesreau receives but S.IBOO in reg
ular salary for his season’s work .w'th
the Giants. However, he gets a bonus of
$1,200. which pulls it up a bit, but not
enough, to make a respectable salary fdh
the man wlvi made the pennant a possi
bility for the Giants
A riot is looked for at New York when
the "Sold Out" sign is hoisted at the
Polo grout ds It is estimated that there
w ill be 100,000 unsatisfied tans on the out
side. looking at the fences, w heft it hap
pens. After that—?
? that it would be a waste of space to dwell on
K their baseball reputations. Marquard will see
> -a majority of the games from the bench and
J can tell of the contest from that angle. Mey
ers and Carrigan will be in almost all games
; and will tell how the battles are waged, from
s the viewpoint of the warriors.
Also., as there are a few million old-fashioned
> folks left who believe that the best stories of
I any game come from men who have made it
i their profession to write them. The Georgian
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< has sent its sporting editor. W. S Farnsworth.
; to the series. He will furnish daily stories in
1 his breezy, inimitable style. No writer in the
country today i< better calculated to handle
; the games in autl’.oritativX and entertaining
fashion than Mr. Farnsworth.
J—the World’s Series
FIRED TUESDAY
Boston clan, has to bow to Fred
Merkle when it comes to a matter
of individual play. Jake is a great,
old, grizzled veteran, but Merkle
can take h’s measure ut first bas
ing. Both tan the hide off the ball,
but Stahl will get thrown out many
times on drives that for the faster
Merkle would be safe hits. Stahl
also is somewmat of an impediment
on the bases and likewise fails to
cover the ground around his posi
tion ouite as well as the Giant, He
may be somewhat surer on thrown
balls, but if so, that is about the
only thing mentionable in his favor
aside possibly from experience and
headwork, and Merkle is not built
of solid ivory in the dome by any
means, despite the frequent knocks
hurled in his direction because of
the one most historic wooden-top
play ever turned.
The Giants’ catching department
is much more dependable as well
as more brilliant than that of the
Hub horde. In our own humble
opinion, Arthur Wilson is at least
the equal of Chief Meyers, if not
more, and the New Yorkers will not
suffer if the Indian is incapacitated
and “Olat has to get behind the
swinging bludgeon. Both are eter
nally hard hitters and average base
runners, despite their bulk, and
they also can execute the rough
and flne points of the catching art
in top o' th' mornin' style, B'll
Carrigan receives much credit from
Stahl for.tiie Red Sox success, but
many find ft hard to figure tiiat
Carrigan is anything approaching a
■ star catcher. The same goes for
Forrest < 'adv However, who knows
but what they may upset the dope
just as did Ira Thomas two years
ago. when he was figured the one
weak spot of the Athletics against
the Cubs and then came to the fore
with eclat?
The utility men are certain to
figure largely in the series, and in
case of injuries qr other troubles
both sides are well supplied wit>
capable reinforcements. Marty
Krug and Henricksen in the out
field and Neal Ball and Clyde En
gel for the infield are the Red Sox
substitutes, while Arthur Shafer
and Hank Groh for the first line of
and Bu’ns for the garden,
together with Grover Hartley be
hind the bat. form the Giant corps.
They compare about even.
Sox Must Win First With Wood
Or Giants Will Cop—Doc White
Bv G. Hiu-i'is (Doc) White.
White Sox Pitcher.
JOE WOOD and the first game of
the seiies are the two big “ifs”
that stand in the way of pro
claiming the Red Sox the world's
champions in advance of the game.
The advance wagering makes the
Red Sox tiie favorites. Not being
in the wagering business and hav
ing no desire to make a wager. I
am not impressed by that. Wager
ing means nothing, except that the
majority of the people who want to
wager favor a certain ball club.
Since the majority of the people
are not going to play in the world's
championship games I refuse to be
awed or refuse to believe that the
Red Sox are overwhelming favor
ites in the big series.
If Joe Wood wins the first game
I think the Red Sox should be the
favorites. If Wood pitches and the
Red Sox are defeated in that firgt
game, then I would not want to
have much of my money strung on
them.
The first game of a world's series
is always a big factor in determin
ing the winner. It did not hold
good last year, but it has been the
general rule that the team that took
the first grabbed the bunting em
blematic of the highest honors that
can be won on the diarrfond. The
fi st game this year is going to be
of more importance than ever be
fore, in my opinion.
Opener in Big Battle Means Much.
If Wood can get the first game
tiie Red Sox will have the edge.
Wood is a strong fellow, a man
who can come back and if he can
start with a win he should be able
to duplicate and probably make it
three during the series. In my
opinion he is the twirler that will
have to bear the brunt of the work.
If he gets away with a lose the
Red Sox will silffer a tremendous
handicap.
In fact, it is difficult to over
cstimate the damage that would be
done the chances of the Red Sox
should Wood be beaten in the ini
tial contest Not only would the
Indian Summer Concert
The following program will be ren
dered by Prof. Fred Wedemeyer’s band
of twenty-five pieces at the second of
the series of Indian Summer concerts at
Piedmont Park, Sunday afternoon, Oc
tober 6th. 3:30 to 5:30.
1. Match. “Caesar’s Triumphal,” Mitchell.
2. Overture. “William Tell.” Rossini.
3. Paraphrase, “Nearer. My God. to Thee.”
Lan gey.
4. Selection from “Carmen.” Bizet.
gp. American Sketch. “Down South,” Myd- ,
diet on.
• INTERMISSION.
6. Waltzes, “Beautiful Blue Danube.”
Strauss.
7. Selections from “Pink Lady.” Caryll.
8. “Oh. You Little Bear.” (new). Billy Van.
9. Selection. “Lucia di Lammermoor.” Doni
zetti.
10. Rag Sketch, (a) “Gaby Glide.” Hirsch:
(b) “Oh. You Beautiful Doll.” Moret.
11. Einale. “Star Spangled Banner.”
Red Sox be put under a heavy
handicap so far as the remainder
x of the games are concerned, but
fheir playing would be affected.
It is all right to talk of “game”
ball clubs. I think that the Red
Sox are one all right. I'm quite
certain that every man on that
team is a courageous ball player,
otherwise the Bpston fellows would
not have won so easily in our
league.
Here is what I am getting at.
The Red Sox have unbounded faith
in AVood. He has been almost un
beatable this season. They are
convinced that he will have all the
better of the Giants. Now, if the
New Yorkers succeed in overthrow
ing Wood, then the confidence of
the Red Sox will be shattered and
they will find it difficult to play
with the same dash that they would
have shown had their idol won hi«
game.
Will Be No Runaway Race.
On the other hand, if Wood
should get away to a good start
and wifi not only will the Red Sox
have the advantage so far as actual
games are concerned, but the confi
dence which the fellows had in
Wood at the start will be increased
and heightened until they will be
unable to see how they can be
licked. They will play with greater
dash and confidence than ever be
fore. and a team possessing the
playing strength of the Red Sox.
reinforced by confidence, forma a
mighty tough combination to beat.
That is my reason for saying that
it all depends upon Wood. If he
can win, fine for the Red Sox. If he
loses the opening battle, then It'a
flne for the Giants, because, in my
opinion, the New Yorkers will be
well on their way toward the
world’s championship.
From which it may be gathered
that I am not among those who
think that the Red Sox are going
to run away with that world's
championship flag. I wouldn’t want
to predict the number of games
that it will go, but I don’t mind
saying that I think the Boston lads
will have their hands full, with
their big chance coming right at
the first day.
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