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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. * ♦ • 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. Want *o rent your rooms, apartments, houses, business locations, etc ? An ad in The Georgian's Rent Bulletin on the want ad pages will fill your vacancies. Try it and see. 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 When you have a bad cold you want the best medicine obtainable, so as to cure it with as little delay as possi ble. Here is a druggist's opinion: “I have sold Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for fifteen years,” says Enos Lol la r. of Saratoga. Ind., "and consider tt the best on the market." For sale by all dealers. (Advt.) 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! 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