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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. - I 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 " 1 'io. .igo ; | mtroii Clevvland-ht. Louis not scheduled, _ - —» ■, • . r . i <• •-e 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 , — — 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. ♦ * * 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. • • • \ 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. • • • 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 • • • 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. • • • 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 c • . ~ I < 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. ————il^—Mß