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Bill Smith Picks Red Sox, But He's Not Over-Enthusiastic
(j| ANTS ARE STRONG AND WILL FIGHT TO FINISH
By Billy Smith.
(Manager of the Atlanta Ball Club)
N--EW 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
p.t-mier team of the American
league, at the Polo grounds in the
first of the 1912 world’s series.
As 1 have written before. I pick
the Hub team to win. but I believe
It is going to be a hard fought
•truggle and most likely will go
the entire seven games.
Saturday I saw the Giants down
the Dodgers in the final game of
the season. I had been reading
that the Giants were far off their
stride. This may have been so,
but Saturday they put up a swell
, xhibitlon. They looked every bit
as good to me in that game over in
B ■ oklyn 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
fi st five innings and allowed only
: .to hit.-. 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, ft
sails up to the batter a whole lot
like the one Walter Johnson throws.
Crandall pitched the hist half of
tie game, and displayed a lot of
smoke.
Marquard was given his final
p'rp on Friday against the Dodg
e and they tell me that he has
egained his stride. If this Is so,
why then those Red Sox hitters are
itoing to have a heap of trouble in
SMALL CHANCE NOW
FOR MORE BASEBALL
IN OLD MONTGOMERY
MONTGOMERY, Oct. -The agree
ment of the local Business Men's league
to guarantee $2,500 a year to the sup
port -of Southern league baseball in
Montgomery has been called off. Rich
ard 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 his 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 12,500 annual subscription toward the
expenses of the club by the Business
Men's league.
Mr. Tillis had submitted a contract
to 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 by Secretary' Kennedy.
The Business Men's league contract
specified that if. for any reason, base
hell was not played in Montgomery
during the next three seasons, as it has
been played in Montgomery under a
Southern league franchise, Mr. Tillis
should return to the Business Men's
league the amount of money received
by him.
Mr. Tillis specified, in section 3. that
h« would return 'he money if the fran
chise was sold to another city before
the three seasons were out.
georgia-tech game to
BE PLAYED AT PONCEY
' HENS. ga._ Oct. 7. —It has been
'"’"ffi'iah.v announced here that the
’! Georgia-Tech football game on
Nmember 16 will be played at Ponce
bel.t,,)). regardless of wheth,: the
=tai!>l at Tech flats is completed
f bat time or not. This decision
t iter a meeting of the boards
'rustees of the two institutions, as
was holding out for playing at
r ' ’ flats, while Georgia was equally
’tent on playing on neutral ground.
DE PALMA IMPROVES. BUT
IS NOT OUT OF DANGER
WIS„ Oct. 7.—Ralph
> :, as condition took a slight turn
better today. Although not out
'"‘nger. physicians declared the man
‘nee to recovery.
' '■ "" Bragg explained his position
o wident today. Although I
’ some one was coming." he said.
. not tried to pull to one side of
L.'. ' - ir<e to let him by, as there, would
'been enough room for him
• v ti is point had I given all the
fount I . ould.”
Experts Cover Series for The Georgian
Georgian will have the greatest array J
i'aseball talent representing it at the <
''l s series that has ever covered such an <
' r for any Southern paper.
William A. Smith, manager of the Atlanta
"' dl club, has been exclusively engaged <
"ill report the games, play by play, for j
Georgian extras. His reports will appear <
’ other papers. This is the first time that I
h| an ot real baseball prominence has ever >
r 'ed a series and reported it. plav by play. <
’*”> paper. Watch for this big exclusive >
in The Georgian's baseball extra-
big league players will look •' .o. for ‘
Georgian at the games Marquaii.. Jfiey-
Carrigan So well are these men known
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,
hpwever. Rag'on, 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. Fie 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.
Herzog, certainly does look sweet
with the stick. He does not bite at
the bad ones a.nd 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 ban Antonio lad. He went to the Cards
from the Flynt club.
• ♦ •
Ihe pathway of yellow sand leading
from 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
culty in following the ball up this path
way with the eye has been the cause of
the poor hitting in Mobile.
» » »
The coming world's series will not be
Jim McAleer's first. He played with
the winning Cleveland team back in the
temple cup series of 18!»5.
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Ten to one you can't pick the “hero”
of the world’s series— and no takers. No
body would have picked Adams, Baker
or Rohe. But they were ii.
Sam Crane, ball player of the neolithic
age. now special writer of The New York
.Journal, has just told for the first time
how his baseball career ended. He was
with Detroit when he fell into an awful
batting slump. Two hits was his limit
in forty times at bat. Then, without
warning, he hit a home run. The club
directors met at once, reasoned that only
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
paring for the Georgia game, which is
to be played in Atlanta on October 19.
That will be Vanderbilt's first hard
game, and McGugln 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
Commodores the hardest fight of the
year, with the single exception of
Michigan, and the local players are
looking for the asm? sort of thing again
this year.
So far, McGugin has used his regu
lars 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
fight.! 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 tight 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 tine
point last week. Besides McGugin and
his regular assistants. Stein Stone and
Owsley Manier. 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.
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and fired him for dissipation
• • •
One thing about the world's series:
rwo 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.
"The A' a,,as team has already booked
exhibition games for nexk spring with
the Giants. Phillies and Browns.
In the American association this sea
son 284 men were tried out.
• • •
„," I J? ever keep a booze fighter." said
Bill t lymer. pennant winning manager of
V ilkesbarre. 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
DL'Bl'C, 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 YorklOS 48 .682 Phila. 73 79 ".ISO
P’burg. 93 59 .612 St. L. .63 90 .412
Chicago. 92 59 .609 Br’klyn 58 95 .379
C’nati. .75 78 ,4»0 Boston. 52 101 .340
Yesterday’s Results.
Pittsburg J 6, Cincinnati 6
Chicago 4, St. Louis 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.O I W L. P C
B'ston 105 47 .691 C’land. 75 78 490
W'ton 91 61 .599 | Detroit 69 84 .451
Phila . !‘O 62 .592 I 8 Louis 53 101 .344
Chic'go 78 76 .507 N York 50 102 .329
Yesterday’s Results.
Chicago 9. Detroit 4.
Cleveland 8. St Louis 3
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that it would be a waste of space to dwell on
their baseball reputations. Marquard will see
a majority of the games from the bench and
can tell of the coolest from that angle. Mey
ers and Carrigan will be in almost all games
and will tell how the battles are waged, from
the viewpoint of the warriors.
Also, as there are a few million old-fashioned
folks left wlio believe that the best stories of
any game come from men who have made it
their profession to write them, 'Hie Georgian
has sent its sporting editor. W. S. Farnsworth,
to the series. He will furnish daily stories in
his breezy, inimitable style. No writer iu the
country today is better calculated to handle
the games in aiilhoritatiw and enlertauiing
fashion that) Mr. Farnsworth.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MON DAY. OCTOBER 7. 1912.
liner Saturday that was the equal
of any catch I 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 ohould 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-ye-well. But he is
hitting hard and timely now. and
Saturday he impressed me as the
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 covers much more ground than
one sitting in the stands would
think. He takes a long, free swing
at the ball: in fact, I 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 hit
ter in the National league.
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