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JAKE STAHL MS
WOE GOOD IN
ONE SEASON
Ry W. J. M ‘Beth.
Nr EU Y(>Ris. 1 »t. 7 Garland
(Jakei Slab' is one of the most
famous men of the land. Six
months ago It aas prat-ti- ally unknown
outside of maj ■ ’eagu-- Today his
name is a household w ord wln-r \ er the
Ante'lean pa time is known. i'nwooed.
Fam has reached down, lifted him
from obscurity and set him up on a
high pedestal He l- a striking exam
ple of one who has had fame thrust
upon him
in the brief span of a half year Jake
Rtah! has ae.omp • .id more toward
publie popularity than he did In a long
association with nit r.i.iona) pastimei
as a player of no mean ability He Ist
playing man ge of the Bos on Red Sox, I
the new champions of the American |
league His managing ability rather,
than his playing skill has att aeted
admiration of the baseball world. In i
one brief season Stahl has made good.'
and the world d. ,itl\ loves a winn i 1
Charlie Dry ,i.-n the Chicago humor
ist. nicknamed J ike the "Born Leadet.
That was some years ago, when the big
fellow «'« 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 i
weeks threatened to make a runaway
race with what every one i msiderod a
habitual tali-ender Washington was
breezing out in front ntm h on Its nerve,
like Hank O'l>ay and the Reds in the
National league last spring. The team
didn't have the class to stick when Its
rivals 'oiinded into shape. It settled
back again Into the ruck and Stahl
threw up the sponge in disgust Dry
den dubbed him the "Born Leader” in
a spirit of raillery But whatever tils
former shortcomings Stahl has this
year justified the horn ■ of such a title
aeriouslv applied.
Looked Bad For Jake.
When it was announced from Boston
last spring that Jake Stall' would man
age the Red Sox his friends of the big
leagues preptced to lay up flower con
tributions They comidrred hint «>
t r ‘od as a dead one already The wise
acres shook their heads in commisera
tion. ' ('op- Jake." aid they, "he must
be foolish going with McAleer What
chance have the Red Sox now ? Me-
Aleer will he manag l he can never
keep his and* off Stahl will only be
Ih< goat' wlnm ■h. learn Is finally torn
asunder by factional dissensions "
It di<l look very much as if Stahl
•we e up . gainst it. No one ■r. diteil
Jimmy M Kleer's announcement tli.it
he would retire permanently from the
managing end Os the game Here was a
man who for years had directed the
unhappy destinies of second division
clubs —the St I.ouis Browns ami Wash
ington Senators l-’roni both <iti<s ho
had been forced by public opposition It
was Inci'edlbc that li» could smother
that tlesiit to appear In the limelight
than a brief Uianugelial experience
usually engenders
McAleer Has Not Interfered.
McAleer has never once tiled to in
terfere with Stahl, if he has, at least,
he has not gotten away with it Ami if j
he has tried to he has taken .are to
show no signs of It before the ; lave s
Whatever glory is attH' hed to tite win
ning of a pennant belongs to Sta ’ am!
to tin loy.i. fe low < who fought sot him!
from the opening of the .cnpalgn intil
tin lieg wa- w.>n
To l;tY 1,1, n ,la' . Sial,: attributes all
his- success !i „«s th. loyalty ■ f Um
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MON EDGE,
SATS BACKSTOP
CARRIGAN
By Bill Carrigan.
Star catcher of the Red Sox, 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 followers of
baseball may gather from it that
the pennant winners are not the
fust team they appeared to lie be
cause of the slower uu.ilitv of
baseball they have been putting up
since they einehed llu flag.
Till- is wrong Just Ir fore we
madi victory certain we slowed up
purposely. because Jake Sttihi,
who has been so successful a I- id
| er from start to finish, wanted his
men to get out of the stress of a
fast campaign, rest up, avoid in
i .lurle- and point themselves to one
tiling the the Giants.
The game we have played since
then can not be taken as any in
dication whatever of what the Red
Soy can do and will do when they
are called upon.
<>f course, wc had to play out
our ,-ehedule and keep fairly ac
tive. but tile team has not tight
ened up on< ■ since the pennant was
sure, and it will not do so until
we get into next week's games.
Must Avoid Injuries.
it wouldn't take much to erip
ple either the Red Sox or the Giants
and put either team out of t)ie run
ning in such a short series as the
world’s championship contest is.
The loss of one man for a week
might decide the championship. It
is unlike a pennant race, where you
can afford to lose thp services of a
man now and then and If you lose
games make them up later in next
week's contest in the world's se
ries every man In lite game must
be tit and stay fit,
Tuesday's game in Washington
was an indication of what might
happen if we took any chances now.
Griffith pul a green twlrler in tile
box—Boehling by name He is a
left-hander from W orcester, with
great speed and all sorts of-curvea,
but not vet in control of the ball
He was nervous in this game, and
the first ball he pitched shot into
Yerkes' back so fast that Steve
could not dodge He hurled one
that curved into Duffy Lewis, too,
and had them speeding around Jake
Stahl’s neck and over Tris Speak
er's shoulders
Hr was so wild that once, when he
thought he had Jake off second he
shot the ball like lightning to sec
ond and almost "heaned” Jake then
and there You see lu cursed it
when he threw to the bug.
Even Wagner Sidestepped.
This lad could have lobbed Bos
ton of the world's championship if
we had played our regular game.
Nobody ever accused any of the
Red Sox of being afraid to stand
up to all sorts of pitching, and in
this ease tiny grinned when they
weie at bat. But all of them, in
eluding W agiK-i the most dining
and fearless ball player 1 have ever
t seen pulled away and look no
chances. They remembered how
Tris Speaker was pul out of busi
ness • y ii no. just Ie fore the
a -~tai series with the Athletics.
I is aid up myself then by tak
ing el antes
You i n't get any line on what
the Re.: s .y , do through w hat
they hay- done lately If you are
looking f u points on next w eek's
games you might just t« well
watcl two teams of bush leaguers
W • hav, simi.l gone along taemg
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I IIK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS..\I*ONDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1912.
Fans Go Wild in Scramble lor World’s Series Pasteboards
CROWDS IN LINE ALL NIGHT TO BUY TICKETS
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By W. S. Farnsworth.
(Sporting Editor of The Georgian.)
NEW YORK, Oct. ".—Ten
thousand rabid fans battled
for an opportunity to secure
the first of the precious tickets of
fered for the world's series struggle
when the ticket sellers threw up
their tiny windows at 9 o'clock this
morning. So desperate were they
In their struggle to .secure the
pasteboards that the large force
of policemen on hand had to
draw their clubs and fairly beat
the mob Into a line that stretched
far down Eighth avenue.
Only 4,000 $3 tickets were of
fered for sale today.
All the other high-priced ducats
had been disposed of to friends of
the players, newspaper men. mag
nates from all the leagues of any
consequence tins side of the Pacific
ocean, members of the national
commission and the pillars of the
national pastime hsreanouts.
At sunset yesterday there were
full\ 300 fans camped without the
historic Polo grounds. They brought
camp stools, heavy blankets and
overcoats. In their pockets were
packages of eatables, and one man
even brought along an oil stove
on which he made coffee. At mid
night the assemblage had swelled
to fully 1,000. They fought for
positions in line until finally an
extra force of police were rushed
to the park to keep order.
At daybreak wealthy fans, many
of them 1n 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
pierced through his worn out light
summer serge, was given s.‘>o for his
place by a prominent Wall Street
. broker, who in turn left his chauf
feur to wait until the windows
opened.
Many Women in Line.
Among those tn th- line were a
number of out-of-town people who.
upon arri' ing here, had rushed
front the railroad station to the
Polo grounds. There were about a
dozen women who had defied the
night dampness and cold to be
among tin first in line.
A small riot broke out about a
half hour before the sale, when
two women rushed up ami 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 the
hook!" and other uncomplimentary
language was hurled at the women.
Men i ar th« women tried to push
them out of line and the disorder
was becoming general when half a
dozen policemen interfered and
drove the women away.
(• spite the discomfort, the crowd
was good natured throughout the
night and the twenty policemen on
duty had little to do. Between 7
amt 8 o’clock the police force was
augmented to 100.
Hawkery did a land ofiice busi
ness during the early morning
hours selling camp stools, soap
boxes, "hot dogs" and lemonade,
t'amp stools brought as "nigh as $1
apiece, while a few boys with well
developed commercial instincts sold
their places near the head of the
procession.
The cold gray dawn found a line
of anxious fans stretching up
Eighth avenue to 157th street anti
down Ht.'aiiwa; to 149th street.
Tin into-\en.iig cross ,»r>ets w - re
pa aed near t te ball park, which
stands at 155th street
Milk Wagon Is Mobbed,
T.-v fits sign of d -order vante
about l a ■> wh o t milk wagon
| >1 r«• > • M• f ii- ask ■ d t tie
timet io ,-e , them some milk, but
: Mind-Reader Needed •
: ToPick Series Pitchers •
• The beet "dope” today on the •
• batterj 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; •
• 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 nor 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 •
• fi st game Regardless of sugges- •
• tions to the contrary, Wood will •
• pitch Tuesday and Collins Wad- •
• 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 •
I • had a long rest. His experience •
• will be of tremendous value and if •
• he is ever to be 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 the
milk they wanted, then paid the
driver what they thought the re
freshment was worth.
it got pretty chilly in the early
morning and several bonfires were
started, but the policemen on duty
put out the tires.
The most determined woman in
the line was Miss Jennie Smith,
who said she lived in Willoughby
avenue. Brooklyn. She appeared
about o'clock with a soap box.
took 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 fi o’clock
a policeman watched her place for
her while 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 tn line ten
hours on his 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 m cessary." he said.
Girl in Line Never Saw Game.
Miss Bessie Brady, aged 111. of 59
Southern boulevard, who has never
:-een a baseball game, arrived at
dawn. '
At 3:30 a. m . Mr. and Mrs. G. M.
Mclntyre, of 325 West Twenty-third
street, arrived and took theii places.
They argued lite chance- t'oi tile
Giants and the Red Sox until lime
tor the ticket sellers to get active,
Florida Men in Line.
In the line near the head uas a
quartet of Pensacola, Fla., citizens.
They were T. H Thompson. Thomas
Jahnson. Emanuel Johnson tnd
Jost-i-h F. Quina. They left the
Florida city Friday and arrived
r< las' night They rushed over
to th- Sixth avenue I. from the
P ut;-! Ivama dei>ot. without even
waiting to wash their faces or eat
their s ippet, amt made all yossj-
I'le steed to the Polo grounds.
They stood in lin- ill night to
Io;' to \-t« f-o all ’< gam--' in this
it- at l\a; - n. of ttklahoma City,
Okla., was another rabid out-of
town fan. He also had dashed to
the Polo grounds upon his arrival
here.
Shortly after 8 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
Broadway tonight and outside of
the park tomorrow.
Only two tickets were 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 theflt 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 which
spent such an uncomfortable night
last night.
Red Sox Back at Even.
Now that the hour is practically
at band, the odds on the result of
the games are at evens. Tn Bos
ton. where 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 tite
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 Ills box work in
his last few games, and Tesreau's
confirmed successful pitching.
On Saturday several of the New
Yorkers made wagers at even mon
ey. and big bets, too, that the
Giants would win the 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 lias been kept on the
shelf by McGraw, and it looks now
as if "Big Six" will have the honor
of pitching the first game: but Mc-
Graw is nothing if not resourceful,
and he may work Tesreau in the
initial contest, with Matty held in
reserve for the second game, which
will be played in Boston.
Wood will surely pitch tne open
er for Boston, with Collins slated
for the second fray.
As the time approach' < sot the
big show, interest is at fever heat.
There seemed to be less interest
I here in New York over the series
during the last week than was man
ifested the previous week, but to
day th. big city is just bubbling
over wiih frothy excitement.
In 80.-t->n tbere was nevei -o
mui h inlet- st ove any baseball
•i i Th o holt of New Eng and
- at fever hen. and the entire list
-' r ■■■'•- ts ha< l>-> n disposed ->f for
:re- games, and thousands and
tho.-sands of oih- s are howling be
- u - they ian not be aceonimp
tin led.
IT'S A CINCH FOH
RED SOI SATS
HARRY LORD
By Harry Lord.
Captain of the White Sox.
CHICAGO, Oct. 7. —There are
so many reasons xvhy 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 half.
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.
I 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 (i bitter disappointment.
Equal Only in Stealing of Bases.
You go up and doyvn the line, and
there is only one department of
the game where I can figure the
Giants the equal of the Red Sox.
That is in base stealing. It’s a well
knorvn 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 first.
Then the 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 lias to 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 the big series opens,
and then worry until it is over.
Not ia-wis. He isn't built that way.
He comes as near being normal
win-n the stake is a great one and
when a player is supposed to lie
under a terrific strain as ant man
I know of.
Lewis Will Not Be Nervous.
Lewis is going to he just about
as nervous when he faces the
Gian:.' as he was ‘>n tin- day'after
lib- Rci Sox had the pennant
clim bed. And no oil, is going to
arsue ’li.i- aas under any par
ti, ulai strain then.
SAM CRANE SAYS
GIANTS EXCEL
RED SOK j
By Sam Crane.
WHY all this clamor for th t
Red Sox?
Don’t be Influenced by K,
Even Christy Mathewson is a«
charry of his prediction on tht
coming series that he says the team
that gets the "breaks” will win. He
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.
1 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.
1 will add to Matty’s Idea by sav
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 in 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 Matthewaon.
"Big Six” is the only player Mo-
Graw has on his team who was a
Giant when McGraw took charge.
BuL as good as Matty waa then,
he has been more or less developed
by McGraw. That is to say, Matty
would not have been the pltoher he
Is and was unless he had the ben
efit of McGraw’s tutelage. That,
possibly, ts a broad statement t»
make, but It goee. and Matty him
self has acknowledged IL
Now, with an entire teem of his
own making, imbued with the fight
ing spirit and system of team wot*
that McGraw insists on, the natural
conclusion to arrive at is that the
Red Sox, under Stahl, who virtu
ally had a ready-made team st
his disposal when he took charga
can not possibly be the bseball ma
chine that the Giants now are
Giant Machine Best.
As I understand it Wood and
Speaker aro considered the Bed
Sox's whole team, or pretty near.
If that is so, then the Amertcan
league champions are something
like the Tigers when they were
called a “two-man” team, with
Cobb and Crawford as the gfgantlo
pair. What the Cubs and Pirate*
did to the Tigers in the world's se
ries is a matter of history, and I
look for history to repeat Itself in
the coming series.
Tlte Athletics last year were a
unit as a team, but I doubt if the
Red Sox w ill be. The Giants on
the contrary, are sure to be.
Ire you tn need of anything ,
Then a Want Ad tn The Georgian wr S
gel it for you. Phone your ad to jn
Georgian Every phone is a sub-»tanv
for Georgian Want Ads Competent an
polite men to serve you
WORLD'S SERIES
WILL BE CALLED BY
CALLER KING
At No. 9 Viaduct Place
Starting Tuetiday, Oct. Bth 1 p ''
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