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Bill Smith Picks Red Sox, But He’s Not Over-Enthusiastic GIANTS ARE STRONG AND WILL FIGHT TO FINISH By Billy Smith. (Manager of the Atlanta Ball Club) NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Tomor row afternoon at 2 o'clock the New York Giants, pen nant winners in the National league, will meet the Boston Red ft,,x premier team of the American league, at the Polo grounds in the first of the 1912 world's series. As I have written before. 1 pick the Hub team to win. but I believe it is going to be a hard fought struggle and most likeljt will go the entire seven games. Saturday 1 saw the Giants down the Dodgers in the final game of the season. I had been reading that the Giants were far off t'neir stride. This may have been so. but Saturday they put up a swell exhibition. They looked every bit .■is good to me in that game over in Brooklyn as the Red Sox did in the three games I saw them perform against the Senators in Washing ton the first part of last week. I saw Tesreau pitch for the first time. The big fellow worked the. fist five innings and allowed only :vo hits. And what a spitter that bird has! Why. he had the bloom ing freak breaking a mile Saturday. His fast ball. too. is a wonder. It sails up to the batter a whole lot like the one Walter Johnson throws. Crandall pitched the last half of the game, and displayed a lot of smoke. Marquard was given his final P'P on Friday against the Dodg <■ s. and they tell me that he has ■ •gained his stride. If this is so. why then those Red Sox hitters are going to have a heap of trouble in SMALL CHANCE NOW FOR MORE BASEBALL IN OLD MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY, Oct. 7.—Theagree meni of the local Business Men’s league to guarantee $2,500 a year to the sup port of Southern league baseball in M ntgoniery has been called off. Rich aid Tillis and the directors of the Busi ness Men's league couldn't get together on a Contract. In contracts submitted by both of them, one clause was ob jectionable to each. The agreement was Off. although subscriptions of $1,600 had been secured. According to the explanation by President E. J. Meyer, of the league, Mr. Tillis called the agreement oft because the league directors would not sign hie contract. The league would not sign it. said Mr. Meyer, because it did not unequivocably guarantee base ball for three years upon condition of a $2,500 annual subscription toward the expenses of the club by the Business Men's league. Mr. Tillis had submitted a contract tn the directors: the directors, not sat isfied. had submitted a counter con tract. The whole trouble lay in sec tion 3 of both contracts, which was read hv Secretary Kennedy. The Business Men's league contract specified that if. for any reason, base ball was not played in Montgomery during the next three seasons, as it has been played in Montgomery tinder a Southern league franchise, Mr. Tillis should return to the Business Men's league the amount of money received by him. M:. Tillis specified, in sectiop 3. that hr would return the money if the fran chise was sold to another city before th three seasons were out. GEORGIA-TECH GAME TO BE PLAYED AT PONCEY A I HENS. GA. Oct. 7.—lt has been ’""•Ti'-iall;, announced here that the | tn Georgia-Tech football game on oiinber 16 will be played at Ponce i-' i.n. regardless of wheth. : the nd at Tech flats is completed me or not. This decision ; ’ :| n after a meeting of the boards ! . ll| -“tees of the two institutions, as 1 was holding out for playing at fiats, while Georgia was equally 'it stent on playing on neutral ground. DE PALMA IMPROVES. BUT IS NOT OUT OF DANGER t 'IH.W'AI'KEE. WIS., Oct. 7. —Ralph 'if ma s condition took a slight turn r ' a better today. Although not out ' : mger, physicians declared the man ' i hanee to recovery. b Bragg explained his position accident today. "Although 1 “<>ine one was coming." he said, ’'l not tried to pull to one side of ’ "ursc to let him by. as there would 'i.'ivc been enough room for him • "s a; thi« point had I given all the Experts Cover Series for The Georgian Ihe Georgian will have the greatest array J that it would lie a waste of space to dwell on baseball talent representing it at the \ their baseball reputations. Marquard will see "mdd's series that has ever covered such an ; ".ajority of the games from the bench and ~q .. i can tell of the contest from that angle. Mev- JRair tor anv Southern paper. . _ ... , ~ J ers and Carrigan will be in almost all games Ilham A. Smith, manager of the Atlanta i wi)l fe|) h()W (h( , battles W a ge d. from ''Li club, has been exclusively eng. ged / viewpoint of the warriors. " I( l "ill report the games, play b\ play for > Also, as there are a few million old-fashioned i m Georgian extras. His reports will appear j folks left who believe that the best stories of 1 im other papers. This is the first time that '< any game come from men who have made it man of real baseball prominence has ever < their profession to write them. The Georgian wi red a series and reported it. plat by play, has sent its sporting editor. W. S. Farnsworth, any paper. Watch for this big exclusive J to the series. He will furnish daily stories in "■'itiire in The Georgian's baseball extras. ; his breezy, inimitable style. X'o writer in the I hrep big league players will look out for ? country today is better calculated to handle Georgian al the games Marquard. Mey- the games in authoritative and entertaining rrs md Carrigan. So well are these mon known fashion than Mr. Farnsworth. winning. The Giants' infield looked great to me. Merkle covers an unlimited amount of territory. I did not like the way he looked at the plate, however. Ragon. who pitched for Brooklyn, fooled him easily on a dinky low curve ball. But Merkle sure can lambast the fast ones in close. Doyle is every bit as good second baseman as I had heard. I look for him to be one of the sensations of the series. That boy has no weak ness with the bat. They tell me that he can hit a southpaw as easy as a right-hander. And I guess he can. for he rides with the pitcher and stings the ball right on the nose. Fletcher played a fair game Sat urday. To his right or left he covers a lot of ground, but I don't believe he has the happy faculty of getting hold of slow rollers. He doesn’t come in fast enough. McGraw has a fine ball player in Herzog. He made a couple of fine pick-ups of hard hit grounders Sat urday. but he doesn't seem to pos sess much of an arm. At least. It didn't show any snap Saturday. He gets the ball away very fast, how ever. and this may make up for the lack of speed behind the throw . Hetzog certainly does look sweet w ith the stick. He does not bite at the bad ones and the Boston hurl ers will have to put the ball over the plate for him or he’ll walk. Murray is by far the best out fielder on the New York team He is one of the best defensive garden ers I ever saw in action. He made a swell running spear of a low- FODDER FOR FANS Catcher Snyder, of the Cardinals, is a san Antonio lad. He went to the Cards from the Flynt club. • ♦ • ’be pathway of yellow sand leading trom the pitcher's mound to the home plate at the Mobile ball park will be covered over with sod before next season begins Experts believe that the diffi cully in following the ball up this path way with the eye has been the cause of Hie poor hitting in Mobile ♦ ♦ * The coming world's .series will not be .hni McAleer's first He played with tl)e winning Cleveland leatf back in the I emple cup series of 1895. Ten to one you can't pick th* “hero” of rhe world’s series—and no takers No body would have picked Adams. Baker or Rohe. But they were A. Sam Crane, ball player of the neolithic age, now special writer of The New York Journai. has just told for the first time how his baseball career ended. He was with Detroit when he fell into an aw’ful batting slump. Two hits was hfs limit in forty times at bat. Then, without warnirfg. he hit a home run. The club directors met at once, reasoned that onlv drink could have wrought such a change, VANDERBILT GETTING READY FOR CONTEST WITH GEORGIA’S 11 NASHVILLE. TENN.. Oct. 7.—Van derbilt begins this week definitely pre hearing for the Georgia game, which is to be played in Atlanta on October 19. That will be Vanderbilt's first hard game, and McGugin is going to make every effort to have his men in first class fighting shape when he puts them up against the squad turned out by his old pupil. Cunningham. Georgia came to Dudley field last year and gave the • "ommodores the hardest fight of the year, with the single exception of Michigan, and the local players are looking for the same sort of thing again this year. So far. McGugin has used his regu lar very little, either in practice or in the games with Bethel and Maryville colleges. The same tactics will be con tinued in the Rose Poly game, which comes next Saturday. The Saturday after that, though, will come the hard tight, and McGugin hopes to send in his list of first string men, uninjured and fresh, against Georgia. However, although the Commodores are expecting their first hard fight and one of the very hardest of what prom ises to be a hard season, they hope to win the game. Vanderbilt was coached to a fine point last week. Besides McGugin and his regular assistants. Stein Stone and Owsley Manter. Dick Hager. who leaves this week to coach V. M. 1.. has been on hand and has helped with the line men. Hager was a Vanderbilt star in 1908, and later played at Amherst. Want to rent your rooms, apartments, houses, business locations, etc ? An ad in The Georgian s Rent Bulletin on the ad pages will fill your vacancies. Tr> it ano see THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANO NEWS. MON DAY. OCTOBER 7. 1912. liner Saturday that was the equal of any catch 1 ever saw. And he sure has a wonderful arm. During the practice before the game he made a line throw from deep right center that came up to Meyers as though it had been shot out of a rifle. Murray Should Hit. I look for this red-headed out fielder to do some tall hitting in the series. Last fall against the Ath letics in the title games he failed to connect for a safe hit and he was panned to a fare-ve-well. But he is hitting hard and timely now, and Saturday he impressed me as th? best man at the plate on the team, possibly barring Doyle. Devore is an erratic performer, and they tell me that he can’t do a blessed thing against a left-hander. He is fast as greased lightning, but he isn’t to be compared with Mur ray. Snodgrass. I had heard, isn't much of a thrower. Well, he sure made a chuck home Saturday that was a marvel. The ball sailed up to the plate from deep center on a line. He looks clumsy at times, but he cove-s much more ground than one sitting in the stands would think. He takes a long, free swing at the ball: in fact, 1 believe he would do better if he choked his bat a trifle. Meyers caught part of the game Saturday. He is a great backstop, and how he does pickle the pellet! He was up three times and slam med out two swell singles. This is the man Connie Mack has tipped off Boston to watch the closest. Mack says he is the best pinch slit ter in the National league. and fired him for dissipation. * • • tint thing about the world's series: Two truly great teams take part but they might be a lot better. • • • These baseball players spring a lot of new stuff when they get to writing news paper articles. For instance. Joe Wood has published the exclusive announcement that speed is his best bet. Mordecai Brown is said to be slated for a manager's job in the Central league. Dallas team has alreadv hooked exhibition games for next spring with the Giants, Phillies and Browns In the American association this sea son 2X4 men were tried out. • • • "J .never keep a booze fighter." said ~l! Clymer, pennant winning manager of "tlkesbarre, in explaining how he hap pened to win the pennant this vear. There were other reasons, but that' one is of peculiar interest at present. * * * Frank Chance alleges that there are more boozers on the Pirate team than there are on the Cub aggregation. He says the prohibition clause on the Pi rates contract was a joke. TERRY NELSON SIGNS TO FIGHT WELLS AT DAYTON CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. Oct. 7. Terry Nelson, of Chattanooga, has signed articles to meet Kid Wells, of Cincinnati, at Dayton. Ohio. October 16. Nelson has already begun train ing here and is in good condition for the fracas. ANOTHER “WHITE HOPE” GOES OVER USUAL ROUTE DI'BUC. IOWA. Oct. 7.—Gus Chris tie, of Milwaukee, made quick work of Jack Hudson, of Platteville, Wis., “white hope." landing a clean knock out in the first round of a scheduled ten-round go here yesterday afternoon. THE BASEBALL CARD. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.O W L. p.C N YorklO.l 48 682 Phils. 73 79 .480 P'burg. 93 59 .612 St. L. 63 90 412 Chicago. 92 59 .609 Br'klyn 58 95 .379 C'natl. .75 78 490 Boston. 52 101 .340 Yesterday’s Results. Pittsburg 16. Cincinnati 6 Chicago 4. St. Louis 3. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C , W. L. P C Baton 105 47 .691 C'land. 75 78 .490 W'ton 91 61 .599 | Detroit 69 84 451 Phila 90 62 .592 < S Louis 53 101 344 Chie go 78 76 .507 N York 60 102 329 Yesterday’s Results. Chicago 9, Detroit 4. Cleveland 8. St. Louis 3. 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