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geowan »cw ©hi 9 * nMior _ EDITED 9 FARNSWORTH I Yes, Gwendolyn, the Life of an Actor Is Very Rocky :: :: :: ;; ;; By “Bud” Fisher / , .losT Mcr A C 1 5 *S VOVN4 -A-N YOW nCSH 'OitWlt. I < X • —*•* "» r r r» or " wfc I™ kVSXJ r _ ’aXj'vldVt^P^' ACT ” ' T j I -i’VG -IF NOT / I WDN-T &^6 PAILK ?/ ' 7 vAu O t L ? y Zi r 6 • k T'U RUSH ANO TELL I \Murr.iOWfr W COVUS TXJN-T COWb?l Jf V I PtHf/VF% SofAC / W' l -* s**”’ -> fSISk4-_ 1 '' J -o . Jk L. a I ___<T jFRR ■ ' > I x W„ iM j r ! t,vl„ til mwK ‘ git c-wwZ'. ( — j —^ao —ZSatmaEiij Tiii "‘; > 1 1T nT 1 1,1 '"HUF ■■[■■■ i 1 plr ! - - ’ ‘ ' 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 bo. s he s tln , h , „. (S n » on, 10. t I nm believe ecu tlmi atmti. team where the ■ uh! F Ho . Hud lin th..nkt ate i en ' 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 h rmi u »ii. ■ <nn» our v. <\ nnd lei ihiH ihe tith.-r fe!\»n h *v» ih. ..tn an<l U uh.il we ui|| do until r u ,... ».. n p I i| and I am tin’itt.d that hh* u afr i.i \ - i >• .-n . . 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 I 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 '' Atlarta T m Admission C* n ** __