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World's Series Should Be Tremendous Struggle From Now to the Finish
SMITH EXPECTS PITCHING BATTLE DE CENTURY
Bx Billy Smith.
i Menage,- Atlanta Ball Club.)
POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK.
Oct. B—-At 1 o'clock more than
25.000 victims of dementia Amer
loam hod crowded into the home
grounds of th» New York National
league pennant winners, to wit
Jwse the first giune at the world’s
between the Boston Red
£knr, the winners of the American
league pennant, and the Giants
At thM> time, one hour before
fbe time for the game to begin,
fhere were flocks of empty reserv
ed efflitM, and tlmre were still a few
peets vacant in the bleachers
An east wind, blowing at the
yato of twelve miles an hour, was
gweeping iw the field, but the
eh£U of this was tempered by a
tndght sun
The Anal ntsh of the day begun
f*hrwtly before 1 o'clock and from that
flnw on there wac a continued onward
rmth of fans and fannettos that showed
Hw futt capacity of the grounds —BB -
000—would be required
Practice Stunts Brilliant.
The Giants took the field for practice
shortly after 1 o'clock, and some spec
tacular stops and throws by the Giant
infielders brought the enthusiastic fans
to their feet wtth cheers.
Wood and (''adv wen* announced as
Stahl's battery selection and McGraw
pktked Tesreau and Meyers
The Red Sox began their practice at
1 go o'clock and evidenced possession
the clearness of theft butting eyes by
hammering the ball to all parts of the
field and smashing several into the
bleachers, while the Giant rooters let
out gasps "f ’Ol s' rnd .-Mi's'
When Mayor Fitzgerald, of Bouton,
took his seat with the Boston delega
tion he was given a warm greeting by
his fellow fans from th< Hub city.
-4t that tlim every square Inch in
the immens. Stand rose to its feet and
howled its delight
Mayor Gaynor and Governor Foss,
of Massachusetts were greeted with
wild cheers when they arrived at 1 o 0
o’clock undet an escort of police .
Mayor Fitzgerald. of Boston, wearing
s Prince Albert and a silk hat was
cheered a- lie walked across the held
and took his scat with Mayor Guvnor
and Governor Foss
The crowd by this tun* was In a
Cate ~f f < Izl, (I , X ’lt i nir'llt
Klrm umpired behind the bat, Ev.ms
nth .1111,K <>|> 11)0 |.: ( .,e. ~n,| < ) l hi i; ’dip
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•Hew York Will Float
1912 World’s Series
Banner/ Says Lynch
By THOMAS J. LYNCH.
1( President of the National League.) ;
< I never give up until lam beaten.
The Red Sox will not be conceded
(any world’s championship by me un- .
' til they have beaten the champions
’of my circuit. I have every confi- s
< dence in MoGraw and in the Gi- (
; ants. I do not say that they will (
! win, but I hope for the best.
* I think that the world's series is a \
> grand thing for baseball and noth- \
< Ing would please me more than to <
)be president of the league which
S annexes the greatest honors of the
) pastime.
i There is more at stake this year s
) than usual, for in the matter of I
{world's championships played un- ?
s dew- national commission supervision
j the American league and National ;
’ league stand tied in the yearly )
tests.
There is too much of the element
of chance in a short series of this s
nature. The Giants, I believe, are '
' better qualified to battle for baseball *
J supremacy than they were a year I
( ago against the Athletics. At that
>time they gave a grand account of (
themselves. They are now more ex
) pe' ienced, and unless the Red Sox
are quite superior to Connie Mack’s
S wonderful collection, we have a
(.great chance to land the victory.
CL 1
games would he the pitching battle
of the century.
Mathewson Tesreau and Mar
guard are almost sure to work the
first th’l games for the Giants
Wood and -Collins ate sure
to work the first two sot Boston
sure a.s smh adi nice stuff can be
Which isn’t so sure after all But
there -a query now as to whether
Stahl will send In Wood with a
day’s rest for the third affair or
shoot in Buck O'Brien, who Is al
ways at his best in the full. This
shift will <le[H‘ttd upon the outcome
of the first two game*.
Hard Hitting Not Looked For.
From the sixteen regulars who
will work In Ibis series, not count
in, th" pitchers who are not cast
lor everv g mu*. H would be no slit -
pt’-e If tint, were less than four
in the 3110 batting class at the
finish.
I ..co y. at t hfi < wen til .* .iliovt
I this border ’in Bak- Ban • and
i.f tin Athbti.s Doyle
.nd NJ. et of th. Giant- But
| th. Gum p ■ ~..w Hutt M.
Giaw iia? I . it iu added, is hiii e tn
IHE \TLA\TA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY. OCTOBER 8. Roz.
be better than It was In 1911 when ;
Tesreau was absent and Marquard
but a debutant.
In the .s;mt* degree the Giants )
are likely to find Wood harder to )
hit than Bender was -despite the $
fact that the Indian is a wonder- )
ful worker for a scries of this sort.
Collins Is rated upon a par with
Plank, hut O'Brien is mor* of a <
guess than Coombs. If O’Brien and J
Marquard hook up it i- likely to be '
the best worked battle of the se- {
t-les—or a slaughtet for the one wh . ]
breaks first.
Either one traveling at top form '
will be well-nigh unhittable, which
i» said to be the main Idea in the I
art of pitching. That Marquard-
O'Brlen battle. If these two meet,
will be Hie biggest gamble of the
series and a thriller from the first
round on to the finish or until
some one detonates and fragments
start strewing the spik. chopped
field.
Based on the pitching . 'on. -as
outlined above the vies is likely
to move out to sox t>n gann‘s.
Giants Have Best Manager.
Tile Giants’ greatest single ad
v antage will lie in the < xperience
and capabilities of their manager
McGraw Stahl, with Wagner
and Carrigan to advise him, has
proved an able leader. He has
shown tine discrimination in the
use of his pitchers and ha- led his
team to a championship over such
rivals as the Athletics, who. before
the season opened, were conceded
the pennant. At the same time, as
a manager Stahl can not be consid
ered tn tile same breath with the
leader of tile Giant *,
McGraw undoubtedly knows as
much baseball as any living man.
He is a great tactician and an in
spiring leader. There is no man
who can s*. opportunity further
off. take adv antage of it quicker or
get the last ounce of i ttlciency out
of his team better than the little
Napoleon of baseball. Tht Giants
may not hit a.- bard as th.- Rod
Sox during the si ri S’ hut they will
probably make mor. of their
chances on the bases. For several
years MtGravv's slogan lias been
speed. He has gathered around
him a team which is faster than
any other aggregation now ; uving
SOTEMIA WINS 4-MILE
RACE: BREAKS RECORD
1/ »ris\ ILL! K Y Os ! N Tl . Ken
ttickx endurance stak»* “f I mik >. run
ai <'» i*r«’l?ill l»own« i c*<ierdrti. was won I
Volemia and h w«trhi s record <»! i
7 in 4 established Ouiot el H.dk»\\*n I
u.• - ■» . • itid \z" tliirc
The gruelling cont*** »•* am** a "it .•
»»ut .i fnt al cr lhe ' art « th th* I
’te’i < »»r a furl l ng \i lie
•nd .•( the nil* MuiiHgo Ma< k
led b> s»x«f.*l lenjjiliM wdh <.'olotu*l Hol |
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Facts and Figures
About Teams Which
Play in Big Series
? FIRST BATTLE—PoIo grounds.)
New York. Remaining games to al- )
> ternate between Boston and New J
; York. <|
SEATING CAPACITIES New U
■York. 3'.030: Boston. 30.000 (esti-<
mated’i <
PREVIOUS RESULTS—I9O3. Eos- <
i ton (A. L.) 5. Pittsburg (N. L.) 3; J
\ 1904, no series- 1905, New York (N.J
L.) 4, Philadelphia (A. L.) 1; 1906.(
Chicago (A. L.) 4, Chicago (N. L.) 2: i
1907. Chicago (N. L ) 4: Detroit (A
L.) 0: 1903 Chicago (N. L.) 4,
A. L ) 1: 1909. Pittsburg (N. L.) 4.De- >
.: troit (A. L.) 3; 1910. Philadelphia (A.>
? L.) 4. Chicago (N. L.) 1; 1911, Phila-)
J delphia (A. L.) 4. New York (N. L.) )
2. Totals—National league 25, Amer- >
J ican league 22.
; PLAYERS ELIGIBLE—New York:
Ames B-cker, Burns. Crandall. Doyle. >
S Devore. Fletcher, Groh, Hartley, Her- I
zOg McGraw. Mathewson. Marquard, v
cMcCcrniick I, erk e. Meyers. Murrav, <
S Robinson. Shaver. Snodgrass, Tes {
' reau. Vvilson and Wiltse. Boston: j
Bail. Bedient B'adlfy. Cady, Collins. S
Carrin,an. Engl». Gardner, Hall. Hon-J
■iksen Hooper. Kiug. Lewis. Nuna-$
maker. O'Brien. P.-ce Stahl, Speaker,/
? Thon : . Wagner. Wood and Yerkes. |
I’l2 WORK CF PITCHERS.
GiANTS. >
{ Name V/. L. P. C. {
j Tesreau 18 7 .720)
{ Marquard .. . . 26 11 .705!
< Crandall .12 6 .6:7)
’ Mathewson 23 12 .6 7 J
S Wiltse 9 6 .600 ’
J Ames 10 6 . 625 i
RED SOX. ;
; Name. w. u. P C. {
Wood 34 5 .872)
v Hall 17 8 .680<
Pape 2 1 .667;
? 8-dient 16 9 .640 <
i Collins 15 9 .625
O'Brien 18 12 .600 {
>c<tuid and third, ten
!ciu,t}'is be 1 i. the leader. Loftus, on
.'lat’iiucr .V* , ipi»arently was trying to
’(■strain ’... liieiuu. but at the end of the
( »>n<l :"!lt Manager Mack had increased
h l«ad ;<« twenty lengths, and ’Sotemia
had nu»\a d ini ' second place
.l< ( iv ‘\ Martin, on Sotemia. then began
« M.ii .u • r
almost closed the big gap between the
two i , . s at the end of the
third mile Manage’- Mae!; led by only on°
length. Sotemia caught him at the first
turn aim dr< w away :-i< ariily until at the
finish th* mare wa< fifteen lengths ahead
JIMMY LAVENDER WILL
WORK IN CITY SERIES
t'l !!<’\ti* >. Oct x The announcement
•’ I. uni) Lavende- again-t “Big LM"
W ills!’ u iirst g nt of the cits series
siaroH .in immense croud to the White
Son ball grounds on the south side, earl'
■”• *■'' i s a spitter against a spitter.
the ta»’s say. ami the other members of
■ .i’l’s Lave f.*.|ed into Hit back
41' at « L'arlx indication, pointed to a
ciou. ■ ".H.nao when th* game Is called
P‘h • '•?•>!< has »h< cit\ been -o
ai.'i'cd . \t r a • *nte-i for the cit\
• ! amptonship This is due latgeh to the
• ■'; 1 . o r< Ii: cm» * ’ f Manager I'rank
•’’lanut . of the Cubs and because the
♦ an•- air a> e\t*r.li mate a»d as tlie.v *vt r
havt !- . l Tb< brttit gis iua\>, with the
I ho> a blight fax orhe
Men and Women Stand in Line All Night io Get Tickets to Polo Grounds
STUPENDOUS CROWD TURNS OUT FOR FIRST SAME
By AV. S. Farnsworth.
(Sporting Editor of The Georgian.)
N-KW YORK. Oct. X. Tills
crowd at the Polo Grounds
today was something to write
home to the folks a+iout. Say, it
was a stunner. I don’t know what
the official count will be. but it was
a jam. a mob. an army of howl
ing, shrieking baseball fanatics —
the wildest crowd, perhaps, that
ever assembled for a diamond con
test.
At noon there were over IS.Doo
persons within the walls and the
early rush had the police so busy
that for the nonce they complete
ly forgot the Becker-Rosenthal
case.
When the gates were thown
open at 8 o’clock. 10.00" perfectly
sane persons who had suffered a
long cold night from encampment
around the park made a wild rush
for the ticket sellers’ windows. The
police soon whipped them back into
line —a line one mile long of grim
ly tenacious but weary- fans.
As soon as the purchasers sep
arated themselves from the prop
er price of their ducat, they Hied
into the stands. They came well
supplied with overcoats, blankets
and eats Two hundred women
were in the line when th** tin-can
studded sid< of Coogan's Bluff was
first outlined in the grey of a chilly
October morn
Borton Inva’ids O. K.
The various Invalids of the Bos
ton team all recovered in time for
the opening of the series.
Larry Gardner's finger lias
entirely recovered from it.- recent
indisposition. This is the diget that
has moved the betting odds baek-
ASHEVILLE HAS MANAGER.
BUT ISN'T IN A LEAGU
ASHKVILLE, Oct. 8. Thomas
Slouch, well known in o as il
manager of the Greenville . am of tl
''‘.’•■’ilia league, I.as been* by tl
management of the local baseball club
officiate at the helm here next sea&o
The deal has just' been closed by Seen
iar\ anti Treasurer Thomas M l>i.< k»*t
who returned to Asheville yesterday fro
the South Carolina city, where he held
consultation with stouch. The latter w
pay a visit to Asheville within a sho
turn’ and become acquainted with the ei
thusiasts. He will keep his exes trimm*
during the coming winter months f
likely talent and will report for duty he
’th days before the opening <»f the seas*
of whatever league in which Ashexil
hiipn* ns t<» hold a membership
Secure the most competent help in t
lines Hiroi’gli the “Help Wanted at
Situatlci - Wanted columns of Tl
<;»'<’gian Tb» best l«it> btai.*abl*'
•hi.- < tx and -.:i ■ outidh .s <an be had I
HblliL’.c-L I>rv.|i|i4' Iht <o ig HisWa:
Ad pug*y
Johnson Predicts
Long Series, With
Red Sox Victors
B BYRON BANCROFT JOHNSON ?
S (President of the American League.) f
The American league will main- (
) tain its supremacy in organized J
) baseball. I have no doubt about j
) this. Boston is the greatest bunch of J
) champions that ever won the pen- )
' nant in my circuit. The team which v.
) Jake Stahl commands is capable, <
) game and consistent. No team ever j
) showed such marked consistency <
> during a fu! campaign.
v Ido not underestimate the strength <
j of the National league champions. (
S New York has a fine team, but I (
' do not think it is any stronger than*?
) a year ago. On the other hand, I (
; think that Boston today is the equal J
\ of the Athletics of 1911.
( In a short series pitching usu- ?
' ally cuts a. great figure and no bet- I
j ter pitching staff can be found any- j
. where in the country than the ?
j corps commanded by Mr. Stahl. Joe ?
, Wood should offset the great Chris- j
ity Mathewson. Eliminating these )
J two, Boston has all the advantage. [
I would not be at all surprised S
ij to see a long series, but as I said ?
( in my opening sentence. I have no >
( doubt that the American league will )
’’ maintain its supremacy in organized >
j J baseball, i
ward and forward.
Wagnei had a nail torn from the
middle finger of his right money
getter in the last game the Red Sox
played in Philadelphia. The wound
has been carefully tapped and
Heine will be out there scooping in
the hot ones right through th se
ries.
Daffy Lewis and ('barley Hall are
suffering from slight colds, hut all
1 this hospital stuff was not serious
enough to alter the speculative
market, which was quoted at 10
to 8 on the Beantown Brigade.
The Pitching Slant.
In considering the merits of any
two teams it is natural to turn
tii st to their strength "it the mound.
Before going into any comparisons
of tin Giants' and R> <1 Sox's piteh
, ers, let us look over the twlrlers
i who have alreadv beaten Boston
this year
Stahl's iiqn have lost IT games
during ti’< season <lf th*-se Wash
-1 ington won io. Philadelphia 7, <‘hi
eagn »i Cleveland II Detroit 6. St.
Loins and New York 2
Forth" S* nators, John-on lias
beaten tile fled Sox llirei time-.
Groom tint, times, Hughe- twice
and Cashion and Akers once apiece.
Johnson presented them vdth on"
of their few shutouts and be and
Hughes on separate occasions held
them to three hits. Plank, of the
Athletics, has won four games from
Stahl’s men. Coombs Is another
man who allowed the warriors from
the Hub but three hits in one tat
tle.
As far as the Chicago White 8o»
are concerned, Walsh has been tho
bete noire of the men from Boston.
Tlte big spit bailer has defeated
them on five occasions. Once he
shut them out. 2 to 0, allowing them
but two safeties. On another occa
sion. he gave them three hits. Bens
won the other game for the White
Sox.
Almost all the Cleveland pitchers
have given the Red Sox trouble.
Gregg won from them four times.
Kahler. Baskette and Blanding each
twice and Steen once. On Septem
ber 17. Blanding gave them but
two hits and on September 18.
Baskette beat them 6 to 0.
Dubuc won three games for the
Tigers, Willett two and Lake on"
against Boston. Lake was the man
who broke Joe Wood’s great win
ning streak.
For St. Louis Baumgardner beat
the men from the Hub twice and
Hamilton, Allison and Howell eech
handed them one defeat.
Ford and McConnell are the only
Highlanders who were able to take
a game from the Champions
In summing up this list it is
fairly evident that the best left
handers and spit-bailers have given
the Red Sox trouble. For instance,
out of their 47 .defeats almost one
fourth have been administered by
southpaws and an additional one
sixth by spitball pitchers.
In Tesreau they will meet a u”“ r
of the moist ball who is second
none.. The Big Bear has been the
sensation of the National league
season. Cool and confident. wi”>
great speed, a curve and a splt" r
that darts away like a frightene’i
bird, he will be a tough proposH’ n
for the enemy to solve. On-
Te-ieau's best points is that u
further he goes the better he g* c
His weakness is that he is Im 1 '
to be wild in the early stag's
the battle.
Mathewson scarcely need- "
merit. A veteran of many ha '
fought fir Ids. and one of the g’"
est money pitchers in the w<*rld "
is absolutely sure to twirl a k 1
game, whether he wins or lose"
Their* is no assemblage I"'-"’
enough I" shake his nerve an"
batter skillful enough to 11
from ’ Rix Six'' whatever bn " ”«
weakness hr* mn> have.
Joe W ood of I lie R< d S' '
considered by many the ino-' 'i ■
g< rou. boxman In the big i f -'* '*'*
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