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ME STAHL HAS
MADE GOOD IN
ONE SEASON
By W. J. Mcßeth.
NEW TURK, Oct 7—Garland
(Jake* Stahl is one of the moat
famous men of the land. Six
tnonths ago he was practically unknown
outside of major leagues. Today his
name Is a household word wherever I lie
American pastime is known, i n wooed.
Fame has reached down, lifted him
from obscurity and set him up on a
high pedestal He Is a striking exam
ple of one who has had fame thrust
upon him
In the brief span of a half year .lake
Stahl has accomplished more toward
public popularity than he did in a long
association with the national pastlmel
as a player of no mean ability He is
playing manage, of the Boston Red Sox.
the new champions of the American
league His managing ability rather
than his playing skill has attracted the
admiration of the baseball world in
one brief season Stahl has made good
and the world dearly loves a winner.
Charlie Dryden, the Chicago humor-
Jat, nicknamed .lake the 'Born Header.
That was some years ago. when tile big
fellow was with Washington, of the
American league. At that time Wash
ington was nowhere Stahl was placed
In control on a gamble He got off to a
flying start In the spring and for six
weeks threatened to make a runaway
race with what every one considered a
habitual tail-endei Washington was
I'breer.ing out in front much on its nerve,
glke Hank O'Day and the Reds in the
National league last spring The team
didn't have the class to stick when its
advals rounded Into shape It settled
“back again into the ruck and Stahl
threw up the sponge In disgust Dry
den dubbed him the ‘Born Header" In
n spirit of raillery But whatever his
former shortcomings Stahl has tills
year juatlfled the honor of such a title
seriously applied
Looked Bad For Jake
When it was announced from Boston
Jast spring that Jake Stahl would man
age the Red Sox his friends of the big
leagues prepared to lay up flower con
tributions They considered him as
good as a dead one already The wise
acres shook their heads In commi.’era
tion Foot .lake." said the), "he must
be foolish going with McAleer What
chance have the Red Sox now Mc-
Aleer will he manager he can never
kssp his hands off St vhl will only be
th* goat' when the team Is finally torn
«»under by factional dissensions
It did look very much as if Stahl
were up against it. No one credited
Jimmy McAleer s announcement tli.it
he would retire permanently from the
managing end of rhe game Here was a
man xx no so- years had directed th*'
unhappy deatinies of second division
clubs—the Sr l.ouis Browns and Wash
ington Senators From both cities he
had been forced bx public opposition It
was incredible that he could smothei
that d'-si'e to appear in the lime ight
than a brief manaceria experience
liana x engenders
McAleer Has Not Interfered.
McAleer has never otic, tried to In
terfere with Stab. if he has at eas'
he lias not gotten awax with It And tl
h» has tried to he has taken are t<
shoxx no signs of it before the p axe *
Whatever glory is attached t<> the win
ning o' a pennant belongs io Stall! am
to the loyal fellows who fought fm bin
from the opening of the campaign untl
the flag was won
To his men Jake S ahi attributes a
Ills success It was tile loxa 'x of Hu
box s. he said the aet time h. xxas II
»xx York. We ilex, hung tpgetbe
from the start .| <|n not believe tot
ran find anothe team whf e the ail
spirit W s<> strong. Kv.-tx on, puts th.
lean. . nt. est« hefo r f. T 'at - v
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BED SOX ON EDGE.
SAYS BACKSTOP
CARDIGAN
By Bill Carrigan.
Star catcher of the Red S°x, who will
report the World's Series for
The Georgian.
BOSTON, Oct. 7.—Some com
ment has been made’ in news,
papers about the game the
Red Sox have been playing in the
past three weeks and folloxvers of
baseball may gather from it that
the pennant winners are not the
fast team they appeared to be. be
cause of the slower quality of
baseball they have been putting up
since they cinched the flag
This is wrong. Just before we
made victory certain we slowed up
purposely because Jake Stahl,
who lias been so successful a lead
■ er from start to finish, wanted his
men to get out of the stress of a
fust campaign, rest up. avoid in
juries and point themselves to one
thing—the beating of the Giants.
The game we have played since
then can not be taken as any in
dication whatever of what the Red
Sox can do and will do when they
are tailed upon.
Os course, we had Io play out
our schedule and keep fairly ac
tive. but the team lias not tight
ened up out e since the pennant was
sure, and it will not do so uni 11
we get Into next week's games.
Must Avoid Injuries.
It wouldn’t take much to crip
ple either Hie Red Sox or the Giants
and put either team out of the run
ning in such a short series as the
, world's championship contest is.
, The loss of one matt for a week
. might decide the championship. It
I Is unlike a pennant race, where you
I can afford to lose the services of a
. man now and then, ami if you lose
, games make them up later in next
I week's contest In the world's se-
s rles everv man In the game must
» be tit amt stay fit.
Tuesday's game in Washington
was an indication of what might
i happen if xve took anv chances now.
Griffith put a given twlrler In the
j box Boehling by name He is a
left-hander from Worcester with
s great speed and all sorts of curves,
but not vet in control of the ball.
He was nervous in this game, ami
t the first ball lie pitched shot into
t Yerkes' back so fast that Steve
could not dodge He hurled one
r that curved into Duffy l.ewis. too.
e and iiad them speeding around Jake
n Stahl's neck and over Tris Speak
ere shoulders.
He was so wild tliat once, when he
d thought he had Jake off second, lie
b shot tlie ball like llglt(nlng to «ec
e <>nd and almost "beaned" Jake then
a and there You see he curved It
e when lie threw to the hag.
n Even Wagner- Sidestepped.
This lad could have robbed Bos
,e ton of tlie world's championship If
It vx e had played our regular game
Nobody ever accused anv of tlie
it Red Sox of being afraid to stand
e up to all sorts of pitching and in
litis vase they grinned when they
were at bat but all of them In
'• • lulling Wggnei the most daring
and fearless ball playi i I have ever
*' seen pulled awav and took no
nances. Tt.ev t entenibei e<i how
h Ti.s Speakei was pul out of busi
ness a vear ago. Just before Ihe
"I .i.i-stai s t -l t- vvitli t|te Athletics.
111 I vxns .aid up myself then bv tak-
Ing ells m es
tmi • au't get anv line on what
i'l tin Red Sox can do through what
H . tllev liavv vi.int- latelv if toll are
looking f'i points on next week's
games you might lust as well
watch Ivin teetn- of bust, leagueis
•u W> l ave simple gone along taking
th what games rameour wav ami let -
ting the other fellow have the <ith
■r» and Him Is what we will do
until Tuesday, then w•• b tighten
1 up an*l I ant imvlnced that the
11 ’ S■ x w < ~ uh i game as
was neve, seen l»s-fi.
I HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.MONDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1912.
Fans Go Wild in Scramble for World's Series Pasteboards
CROWDS IN LINE ALL NIGHT TO BUY TICKETS
By W. S. Farnsworth. •
( Sporting Editor of The Georgian.) •
NEW YORK. Oct. 7.—Ten •
thousand rabid fans battled •
for an opportunity to secure •
the first of the precious tickets of- •
set ed for tlie w orld's series struggle •
when the ticket sellers threw up *
their tiny windows at 9 o'clock this
morning. So desperate were they e
in their struggle to secure the •
pasteboards that the large force •
of policemen on hand had to c
draw their clubs and fairly beat •
the mob into a line that stretched a
far down Eighth avenue. a
only 4,000 $3 tickets were of- a
sered for sale today. a
All the oilier high-priced duedts a
had been disposed of to friends of a
the players, newspaper men, mag- a
nates from all the leagues of any a
consequence this side of the Pacific a
ocean, members of the national «
commission and the pillars of the 4
national pastime hereabouts. t
At sunset yesterday there were a
fully 300 fans vamped without the a
historic Polo grounds. They brought a
vamp stools, heavy blankets and a
overcoats, in their pockets were a
packages of eatables, and one man <
even brought along an oil stove ,
on which lie made coffee. At mid- ,
night the assemblage had swelled ,
to fully 1.000. They fought for 4
positions in line until Anally an (
extra force of police were rushed (
to the park to keep order. (
At daybreak wealthy fans, many (
of them in high-priced automobiles. (
arrived and offered the all-night ,
vigilants fancy prices for their po- (
sitions In the line. Many of all- ,
nighters had figured on this, and as ,
a result are feeding their long
hungry stomachs today as never ,
before.
One man. about tenth in line, a
seedy looking individual, shaking
from the cold night air which
pierv ed through his worn out light,
summer serge, was given SSO for his
place by a prqjnlnent Wall Street
broker, who in turn left his chauf
feur to wait until the windows
opened.
Many Women in Line.
Among those in the line were a
numbet of out-of-town people who.
upon arriving here, hail rushed
from the railroad station to the
Polo grounds There were about a
dozen women who had defied the
night dampness and cold to be
among the first in line.
A small riot btoke out about a
half hour befo e the sale, when
two women rushed up and tried to
get Into the line near its head,
thus taking advantage of the
thousands who had stood holding
their places throughout the time.
Police Drive Women Away.
Throw them out'." "Get tlie
hock! " and other unv omplimentary
language was hurled at the women.
Men near the women tried to piisii
them out of line and the disorder
was becoming general when half a
dozen policemen interfered and
drove the women awav
Despite the discomfort, the crowd
was good natured throughout the
night and the twenty policemen on
duty itavl little to do Between 7
and S o'clock the police force was
augmented to 100.
Hawkers did 8 land office busi
ness during the eatly morning
hours selling camp stools, soap
boxes, "hot dogs" and lemonade,
t'atnp stoo's brought ns high as It
apiece, while a few buys with well
vievelapevl commercial instincts sold
their places near the head of the
procession
The cold gray dawn found a line
of anxious fan- stretching up
Eighth avenue to 157th street and
view n Broadwav t<• 149th street.
The Intervening cioss streets w>r»
packed near in- ball park, which
stand- at Inoth street.
Milk Wagon Is Mobbed.
The fits’ sign of v! sorrier cam*
HbvviM < a. n when » milk wagon
drove U|v Mv|i in '.m Hskevi It'- j
driver to aeli tletn soillv milk, but
a •
• Mind-Reader Needed •
: ToPick Series Pitchers •
a •
• The best "dope" today on the •
• battery plan in the world's series •
• Is as follows: •
• Tuesday (New York) —Boston. •
• Wood and Cady . New York, Tes- •
• reau and Meyers. •
• Wednesday (Boston! —Boston. •
• Collins and Carrigan; New York. •
• Mathewson and Meyers. •
• Thursday (New York) —Boston. •
• Bedient or O'Brien and Carrigan; •
a New York. Marquard and Wilson •
• Friday- (Boston) Boston. Wood •
• and Cady; New York, Tesreau and •
• Wilson •
• Saturday (New York) —Boston. •
• Collins and Carrigan. New York. •
• Mathewson or .Marquard and Mey - •
• ers. •
• Neither McGraw not Stahl has •
• gone so far as to guess who will •
• pitch in the following week, if the •
• series goes beyond five games. Os •
• course, their ideas are subject to •
• change, but this is the best line •
• that can be had upon their ordi- •
• nary course Both managers hope •
• to "get the jump" by winning the •
• first game Regardless of sugges- •
• tions to th* contrary. Wood will •
• pitch Tuesday and Collins Wed- •
• nesday. Tesreau is picked to start •
• for New York because he is the •
• most successful Giant pitcher just •
• now Mathewson is favored for •
• the second game, because he has •
• hail a long rest. His experience •
• will be of tremendous value and if •
• he is ever to lie good he should be •
• prime right then. This would put •
• a Giant right-hander against a •
• Red Sox left-hander •
he refused. A dozen or more at
tacked the wagon and drank all th*
milk they wanted, then paid the
driver what they thought the re
freshment was worth.
It got pretty chilly in the early
mottling and several bonfires were
started, but the policemen on duty
put out the fires.
The most determined woman In
tlie line was Miss Jennie Smith,
who eaid sue lived in Willoughby
avenue. Brooklyn She appeared
about 2 o'clock with a soap box.
tbok a desirable position and sat
down to wait the intervening seven
hours until the ticket booths were
opened. She declared she was go
ing to see every game. At 6 o'clock
a policeman watched her place for
her w nile she got her breakfast
and the male fans loudly cheered
her for her pluck when she re
turned.
Emil Pollock, a cripple, of 245
Seventh avenue, stood in line ten
hours on bis crutches to get tick
ets He was nearly exhausted
when he got a chance to rest, but
was still game.
"I'd stand In line for two weeks,
if necessary ' he said.
Girl in Line Never Saw Game.
Miss Bessie Brady aged IS. of 59
Southern boulevard, who lias nevet
seen a baseball game, arrived at
daw n.
At fl 30 a. tn . Mr and Mrs. G. M.
Mclntyre, of 325 West Twenty-third
street, arrived ami took their places.
They argued tlte chances for the
Giants and the Red Sox until time
for the ti. ket sellers to get active
Florida Men in Line.
In the line neat tin head was a
quartet of Pettsav ola. Fla., citizens
They were T H Thompson. Thomas
Johnson. Emanuel Johnson ami
Joseph F Quina. They left the
E'lot iiia city Friday ami arrived
here last night They rushed over
to the Sixth avenue I. from the
P> tm-y Ivanin depot without even
waiting to wash their faces m eat
theit supper, anil made a'l possi
ble speed to th* P'lio grounds.
Thex stood in line til night to
b tx tiv kets sot all the games in this
I city 1
i ' ,vt \\ ai i on. 1.1 ( )klanom:t < ity .
Okla., was another rabid out-of
town fan. He also had dashed to
the Polo grounds upon his arrival
here.
Shortly after 3 o’clock, some
body pipped up "Everybody's Doin'
It,” and many joined in.
The policemen did not make any
effort to stop the singing, so when
the first song was sung somebody
proposed another.
Police lines were formed along
Broadway and Eighth avenue, and
a district was held open to pre
vent "flying wedge" tactics and
rough work.
Hard on Speculators.
Although the baseball officials
had made every effort to prevent
tickets falling into the hands of
speculators, there were many boys
in line whose presence was suspi
cious. It was believed that specu
lators had hired these boys to buy
tickets, which will be resold along
Btoidway tonight and outside of
the park tomorrow
Only two tickets weie allowed to
each person. In the mile long hu
man lines were many famous Bow -
ery characters. They were there to
secure tickets for speculators, but
many of them were spotted early
and their money refused. For the
first time in the history of world s
series, it looked as though the tick
et vendors, the pests who for years
have "stuck up" the public, were
going to be cheated out of making
any money. At any rate, the paste- -
boards that do find their way into
their hands will not be anywhere
near as many as on previous occa
sions.
Tomorrow morning at 8 o clock
the sale of admission tickets will
begin. It is figured that ten thou
sand fans, many of them nearly
starved by saving from their scant
earnings enough to secure a dollar
ticket, will encamp outside the
grounds tonight. But it will not be
a more rabid mob than that whi h
spent such an uncomfortable night
last night
Red Sox Back at Even. |
Now that the hour is practically
a i hand, the odds on the result of
the games are at evens. In Bos
ton. w here there was never such
enthusiasm, the Red Sox are the
favorites at 10 to 9. but here in
New York nothing but even money
prevails. The change from the Red
Sox being almost the universal
choice to the Giants, showing the
confidence of the baseball public,
has been brought about by the ap
parent return of Marquard to his
winning form of the early season,
as evidenced by his box work in
his last few games, and Tesreau's
continued successful pitching.
On Saturday several of the New
1 Yorkers made wagers at even mon
ey and big bets, too, that the
Giants would win tlie series, and
also gave odds of 10 to 8 that Ma
thewson would win his first game,
even if opposed to the much touted
Joe Wood.
Looks Like "Big Six."
Mathewson has been kept on the
shelf by McGraw, ami it looks now
as if "Big Six" will have the honor
of pitching the first game, but Mc-
Graw is nothing if not resourceful,
ami he may work Tesreau in the
initial contest, with Matty held in
reserve sot tlte second game, which
will be played in Boston.
Wood will surely pilch tlie open
er sot Boston, with Collins slated
fin the sev ond fray.
As the time approav lies sot the
big show. Interest is at fever heat.
There seemed to be less interest
here in New York over the series
during the last week than was man
ifested the previous week, but to
day tlte big city l.« just bubbling
over with frothy excitement.
In Boston there was never so
much interest o'er any baseball
I‘vrtit The whole of New England
is at fevfr heat, and the entire list
vxf tickets ha« been disposed of sot
three tames, ami thousands and
tho-.i’ands of nth* l « ate how I ng be.
v au-v th*x can not be accommo
dated
IT’S A CINCH FDD
RED SOX, SAYS
HARRY LORD
By Harry Lord.
Captain of the White Sox.
CHICAGO, Oct. 7. —There are
so many reasons why the Red
Sox should win the world's
championship that if a man got a
few dollars per reason he could quit
rich.
I'm not going to enumerate all of
them. Just a few will suffice here.
To begin with, the Red Sox have
one of the greatest aggregations on
the offense that was ever collected
You can talk about the greatness
of Tris Speaker with the war club
until you tire and then never men
tion lialf.
It would be a good ball club if
Speaker was the only fellow who
could hit. But he isn't. There are
about nine men in the line-up who
can slug.
1 can't see any reason for com
paring the offensive, strength of the
two teams, for the reason that the
Bostons so far outshadow their ri
vals.
Stahl has a better defensive
strength, too. You may talk about
the base running ability of the
Giants, but it isn't going to show
to any great extent. The Giants
may be in the habit of taking ex
tra bases on their hits in the Na
tional league, but they do not when
they go against the American
league champions.
That Boston outfield is one of the
wonders of the baseball world, and
if the Giants have any intention of
taking two bases on long singles
and three bases upon ordinary two
baggers they might as well prepare
for a bitter disappointment.
Equal Only in Stealing of Bases.
| You go up and down the line, and
there is only one department of
the game where 1 can figure the
Giants the equal of the Rod Sox.
That is in base stealing. It’s a well
known fact in baseball that you
have to get on first before you can
steal second. That's one reason why
the Giants will not run wild on the
sacks —not enough of them will
reach fl rst. x
Then tlie Boston fellows have a
much better catching staff than one
figures. Carrigan can throw all
right, and Cady is a comer. The
Red Sox have a man in Wagner,
however, who is such an artist in
flagging the ambitious base runners
that all the Sox catchers have to
do is to throw fairly well.
Wagner is one of the greatest in
the business when it comes to get
ting a thrown ball and putting it
on the runner. A throw doesn't
have to be perfect when he is tak
ing it.
All that it has tn be is in the
general direction of second base.
He'll do the rest. So where many
clubs require star throwers, all the
Red Sox need Is a fair pegger
But Duffy Lewis is the fellow I
pick to shine. I think he possesses
the temperament of a man who is
bound to show to advantage in such
a game. Lewis is a man totally
without nerves.
The average player may fret for
days before tlie big series opens,
and then worry until it is over.
Not l.ewis He isn't built that wax
He comes as near being normal
vv hen tiie stake is a great one ami
xx hen a player is supposed to be
under a terrific strain as any man
I knoxx of
Lewis Will Not Be Nervous.
l.ewis js going io he just about
as nervous when he saves the
Giants as he was on the dax after
the R--d Sox had the pennant
clinched. And no one is going to
argue that he was under any pal
ticulai strain then
SAM CRANE SAYS
GIANTS EXCEL
RED SOX f
By Sam Crane.
WHY all this clamor for the
Red Sox?
Don't be influenced by it.
Even Christy Mathewson is so
charry of his prediction on the
coming series that he says the team
that gets the "breaks" will win. H»
also claims that the question of vic
tory will hinge on managership, as
between McGraw and Stahl, and
that the Giants' manager will have
the advantage on account of being a
bench manager instead of a player
manager as is Stahl.
I agree with Christy in that, but
Matty in his probable desire not to
criticise any player, either a fellow
or opponent, has steered away from
the right dope.
McGraw Knows Game Best.
I will add to Matty’s idea by say.
ing that McGraw knows more base
ball than Jake Stahl, and on that
account alone, the Giants have a
better chance to win out than have
the Red Sox.
This, of course, is without taking
into consideration the other points
in which I think the Giants excel
the Red Sox. But that handicap of
McGraw- having a better lead for
the game than my old friend Jake
is going to carry- a whole lot of
weight, and enough possibly to
carry the Red Sox down tn defeat.
It surely will, too, if both teams
show themselves evenly matched
otherwise.
in offensive work I think the
Giants are superior to their Boston
friends the enemy. The New York
ers are all of the McGraw- brand,
with the exception of Matthewson.
"Big Six” is the only player Mc-
Graw- has on his team who was a
Giant when McGraw took charge.
But. as good as Matty was then,
he has been more or less developed
by McGraw. That is to say, Matty
would not have been the pitcher he
Is and was unless he had the ben
efit of McGraw’s tutelage That,
possibly, is a broad statement to
make, but it goes, and Matty him
self has acknowledged ft.
Now, with an entire team of bl’
own making, imbued with the figh'-
Ing spirit and system of team work
that McGraw insists on. the natural
conclusion to arrive at is that th*
Red Sox. under Stahl, who virtu
ally had a ready-made team at
his disposal when he took charge,
can not possibly be the. bseball ma
chine that the Giants now are.
Gisnt Machine Best.
As 1 understand it. Wood and
Speaker are considered the Rd
Sox's whole team, or pretty near
If that is so, then the American
league champions are something
like the Tigers when they were
called a “two-man” team, wl’h
Cobb and Craxvfotd as the gigantm
pair. What the Cubs and Pirate"
did to the Tigers in the world's
ries Is a matter of history, an
look for history to repeat itself in
the coming series.
The Athletics last year were
unit as a team, but I doubt if ’
Red Sox will be. The Giant
the contrary, are sure to be.
Are you in need of anv tiling
Then a M ant Ad In The Georgian v
get il for ,v ou Phone your avl
Georgian. Every phone i“ a sun - - .
for Georgian Want Ads Compel* l
polite men to serve you
WORLD'S SERIES
WILL BE CALLED 6*
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