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BASEBALL JURY RENDERS VERDICT ON YESTERDAY’S GAME
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Here are the opinions of baseball players and sporting writers of the United States, gathered
from the articles which they wrote on the first game of the world’s series:
Christy Mathewson, famous pitcher of the New York Giants:
"The Ked Sox got the ‘breaks. Wood can not come back and repeat his victory.*’
‘•Chief” Meyers, Giants’ catcher:
I know New York has the better team. The Giants are better batters and we have better pitchers.”
Tv Cobb, of the Detroit Tigers:
McGraw made a fatal mistake by allowing Beals Becker to run for Chief Meyers in a crucial inning. Becker is a
better batter than he is a base-runner.”
Jake Stahl, manager of the Red Sox :
It was a great game and a great victory. All the credit for it goes to the boys. Wood showed his class if ever
a pitcher did. lhe situation in the ninth inning would have broken the heart of any ordinary pitcher.”
John J. McGraw, manager of the Giants:
"It was a tough one to lose. I am making no excuses for the team nor the way in which the hoys were handled.
\one is necessary. They played a good game and put up a good fight. The breaks went against us.”
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' By R. W. LARDNER ZZrkl-L . ,'
A is for Ames, with his pretty curve ball:
ZA McGraw didn’t think much of Leon last fall. *
I*■ But if Rube and Matty and Tesreau all fail.
Then Leon may look like a regular whale.
Bis for Bedient. Christian name Hugh.
There isn't no telling what this boy will do.
He’s handsome, right-handed and awfully swift:
He was out of the first, but he may pitch the fifth
Cis for Carrigan, also for Cady.
Neither of whom is a real perfect lady.
Carrigan's slow, but he's awfully good.
While Cady is there as receiver for Wood.
Dis for Doyle; o*h, you beautiful Doyle:
You surely play baseball according to Hoyle;
You’re made of hot ginger and hustle and pluck.
And up in the pinch? Why, you’re there like a duck.
Eis for Engle, a sub for the Sox.
ft takes him a fortnight to run seven blocks.
But when some one's hurt, or when some one has died
Then Boston is glad it can fall back on Clyde.
Fls for Fletcher, whose first name is Art;
He used to hold down a utility part.
But now he's the shortstop for johnny McGraw,
And one of the fastest that you ever saw.
Gis for Gardner—his friends call him Larry:
He s third sacker now since they traded Lord Harry.
He’s strong on hard smashes, they seldom go through;
They stop and they say: “Larry, how do you do?”
His for Herzog, called Charley or Buck:
Lew Richie asserts he is plumb full of luck;
Be that as it may and be that as it will,
Young can handle and wallop that pill.
Ils for Indian, Chief Meyers, of course.
As large as a house and as strong as a horse.
He hits the ball often, he hits the ball hard
Play back. Duffy Lewis, play back, Duff, old pard.
| is for Jake, which is not his real name.
| Rut all of his pals call him Jake just the same.
He's boss of the Red Sex and covers first base.
And wears a broad smile on the front of bis face.
Kis for Krug, a utility guy.
Did you ever hear of him? Neither did I.
The reason this Red Sox is named here today
Is that his cute name opens up with a K.
lis for Lewis, as every one knows.
He isn't so husky, but iny! how he throws:
He sure is a bear on lhe sharp-shooting stuff:
Our friend. Gyp the Blood, ain’t got nothing on Duff.
Mis for Merkle and Marquard. Oh. yes.
It's also for Murray and Malty, 1 guess:
And it's for McGraw, McAleer and Mcßoy.
This large letter M is a busy old boy.
N” is for young Nunamaker. a kid.
One time he belonged to the Cubs, so he did
He catches for Boston when Cady is ill
And when there is something the matter with Bill.
Ois the letter that stands for O’Brien.
He pitches the spitball and pitches it fine.
He owns a good voice, sympathetic and true,
it never does break like his best spitters do.
Pis for Pape; he is thin as a taper.
His name seldom bursts its way into the paper;
He passes the most of his days warming up.
For Larry is surely a willing young pup.
Ois for Quakers, the Phillies, you know.
Who ought to be in on the world’s series dough;
. But Owen and Brennan and Rigler and Klem
Conspired to throw the sharp hooks into them.
Ris for Robinson, big as a cow,
With Muggsy in Baltimore; still with him now.
He catches the pitchers in practice a lot
And tells them quite frankly' just what they hain't got.
Sis for Snodgrass and Speaker, the Dub.
Each plays center field and bats third for his club
Now, which is the stronger and which is the weaker?
We'll let Speaker's record speak up for Spoke Speaker.
| a is for Tesreau, the latest white hope,
‘ The star of the series, so says Gotham dope
1 "He'll shut them out sure if it happens he’s right,”
But if you are wrong. Brother Tesreau—good, night.
T T is for Umpires. There'll be four of them—
I I O'Loughlin and Evans, and Rigler and Klem.
They’ll call all the close ones just right, or. by heavens.
We'll kill Klem, O'Loughlin. Rigler and Evans
\J is for Verse, with no one to put in ft.
/ I gave it much thought before 1 did begin it.
Vean Gregg and Vin Campbell are not in the games.
And V doesn't start any cham-pions’ names.
XX 7 That stands for Wagner, not Honus,
\/V But Heine, is almost as good a man, hones’
* * He doesn’t give way for no base runner’s spikes.
Go cut both his legs off: that's just what he likes.
Xis for x-Engle batted for Wood.
I guess, Giant rooters, that wouldn't sound good.
x-Moose McCormick now bats for Devore
Did Boston e'er hear such sweet music before?
\r is for Yerkes, called Boston’s weak spot.
But does Boston believe it? Well, certainly not
You make an occasional boot or wild heave.
But old Garland Stahl's glad that he’s got you, Steve
Zis for Zip. Don't it scare you at all?
It s the hop that Joe Woody’ puts on his fast ball
Zip! Here it comes There it goes. Can t you hit ?
- Oh. now you're too late. It’s in Cady's big mitt.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBEK 9, 1912.
ADENDfiNCE Off;
ONLY 35,731
SAWGAME
NEW YORK, Oct. 9 The complete
attendance and receipts for the first
world’s series game between the
Giants and Red .Sox show that the
present series will probably be less of
a money maker than that between the
Giants and Athletics last year.
The official figures follow:
Total attendance first game, 1912.
35,730; 1911. 38,281.
Total receipts first game, $75,127;
1911, $77,369.
National commission's share. 1912.
$7,512.70; 1911, $7.’735.90.
Players' share, 1912, $40,560.58: 1911.
$41,773.86.
Clubs’ share, 1912. $27,045.72: 1911,
$27,849.24.
FIFTH REGIMENT LEAGUE
OPENS SEASON TONIGHT
The first half series of two games
will be played in the newly organized
Fifth Regiment Basketball league to
night. The first game will be between
the Governor's Horse Guard and the
Atlanta Guards, troop L. and company
C, respectively. Company C ended in
the first division of the Fulton league
last year. The Horse Guard team is
a new one. The men now on this team
are Elrod, manager; Abbott, Grice, Orr.
Baker. Starnes. Jones, Hills and
Klauseman.
The second game will be between
company K, better known as the At
lanta. Grays, and company H. the Ful
ton Fusiliers. Company K’s team is
apparently the strongest in the league.
This is the first, experience of the Fu
siliers’ teain. and little is known of it.
in addition to several promising re
cruits from various “prep” and high
schools, the following expert players
are on K's team: Mauck. Stallings.
Jarvis and Aldred.
The same plan will be followed in
playing games that was used by the
Atlanta and Fulton league® last y< 11
Games will be played in series of two
on each Wednesday and Friday night.
One game is played between and after!
halves of the other game.
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THORPE MINGLES WITH
REDEYE: LOSES VERDICT
PITTSBURG. Oct. 9.—A crowd in the
lobby of the Seventh Avenue hotel Sat
urday night saw Big Jim Thorpe, hero
of the recent Olympic games, lower his
colors to Glenn Warner, the doughty
coach of the Carlisle Indian footbal
team.
When the mixup was over Thorpe
was put between two Carlisle men and
marched in disgrace up to the Union
depot.
The world's greatest all-around ath
lete strayed from the path of prohibi
tion and Warner caught him in the
cigar stand affectionately kissing a bot
tle of "red eye." Warner was sore, it 1
Is said, because the big Indian had gone
into the Washington-Jefferson game
more than ordinarily stimulated
"Give me that bottle.” yelled War
ner.
Thorpe refused, and Warner went t«
a clinch and got the bottle.
“Who gave this to him?" demanded
Warner, turning upon a crowd of men
who had witnessed the row
Nobody pleaded guilty and Warner
turned again on Thorpe, who was emit
ting yells that attracted all the police
in two blocks. After Warner finished
a little roughly Thorpe had lost his
.voice and wabbled cheerfully along Lib
erty avenue with his re-enforced escort.
JOHNNY KLING DENIES
STALLINGS HAS HIS JOB
BOSTON. Oct. 9. —Manager John
Kling, of the Boston Nationals, issued
a statement last night in which he de
nies reports of an agreement by which
he is to be succeeded as manager b\
George Stallings, of the Buffalo team,
this season. Kling said he did not
know whether he would be manager of
the local club next year.
"If I am not retained as manager ami
can not secure rn.v unconditional re
lease," he says. "1 shall retire from
• baseball."
Ex-Southern Leaguers Should
Star in World's Series Games
By Percy H. Whiting.
NOW that the world's series
tumult and shouting have
reached their limit of noise
it might not do any harm to slip in
a gentle whisper to the effect that
some former Southern league play
ers seem destined to play a rather
noisy <role in the Big Circus which
is juSt getting under way.
Now., as it starts the brightest fig
ure of them all is Colonel Tristam
Speaker, of Hubbard, Texas. He
may not be the hero at the finish,
but right now, on the strength of
his marvellous batting this season,
because he won the automobile as
the American greatest
player and because he is the best
advertised member of the team
which is favored to win the world's
championship, he is certainly get
ting a major part of the publicity.
Speaker began his baseball ca
reer at Cleburne, Texas, some five
years ago. He , looked good and
Boston grabbed him. Then he didn't
look so good—for he was only a
raw countryman then, and a mere
kid at that, so he was sent back to
Little Rock, then in the Southern
league, and put under the watchful
eye of Hon. Michael J. Finn, man
ager of the "Travelers” and a dis
tinguished citizen of the City of
Roses.
Two Famous Travelers.
. As a batter Speaker blossomed
right out. He. fielded a bit like a
war veteran with a cork leg, but he
was everlastingly there with the
old swat stick. And he led the
Southern league in batting
When the season ended Mike
Finn was presented with a marvel
lous chance to shine, either as a
hero or a financier. It seems that
the Red Sox thought so little of
Speaker that they forgot to exer
cise their option, or something to
that effect, and when they woke up
to themselves the time had passed.
1 Finn was no more legally bound to
deliver Speaker to the Sox than he
was to turn over the gate receipts
to them. But anyhow he did it.
if the Red Sox were even grateful
it hasn’t been observed, even to
this day.
From the time of the reappear
ance of Speaker in. Boston to the
present day the husky young Texan
has made good.
Another hard-hitting and weak
fielding outfielder of that same Lit
tle Rock team was Beals Becker.
This is the same Becker who is
CHICAGO’S CITY SERIES
LIKELY TO BEGIN TODAY
CHICAGO. Oct 9 Chicago baseball
fans were out again early today for the
opening of the city series. The all-night
rain ceased at a little after 5 o'clock and
a brisk wind sprung up that sent hope
inty the hearts of the men who wended
their way to Comiskey park to be in line
for the best, seats.
Although the grounds were covered with
tarpaulins from the time the first drop
of rain fell on Tuesday, the groundkeep
e.rs expressed fear that the rain may
have worked through and softened the
field sufficiently to prohibit, playing today.
Walsh and Lavender were picked to
do the twirling for the game.
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Damon Runyon, baseball writer of The New York American:
“ ‘Smoky Joe Wood it was who emerged from that fierce fight with the lion’s share of honors. Let. them analyze
lhe game with expert skill down to the last thrown ball, let them take it play by play, move by move; it was the chilled
steel nerve of ‘Smoky Joe' that lifted the Sox across.”
Hugh S. Fullerton, expert writer on baseball:
“The game was a wonderful one. The umpiring was the best 1 have ever known.”
“ Bill ” Carrigan, catcher for the Red Sox: • *
”1 believe we will win four straights. We have the best team in every department.”
‘ Jeff” Tesreau, who pitched seven innings for the Giants yesterdav:
“I believe overconfidence is to blame. I lost after the Giants had practically won. Overconfidence hurt me.”
Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit Tigers:
“Speed, coupled with control, is a pitcher’s greatest asset. Wood pitched one of his best games. Weather condi
tions favored Wood, and also the fact that the Polo grounds are hard to hit on.”
Bozeman Bulger, of The Evening World:
“Hub fans hold the Giants in much lower estimation than they did three days ago.”
with the Giant team this year. He
Is still a weak fielder and unfortu
nately is but an uncertain hitter in
big league company. In his one
part of a year in the Southern he
was a tremendous slugger and was
right behind Speaker in batting
average.
Yes, Clyde Engle, Too.
Another former Southern leaguer
in the would-be world’s champion
ship class is Arthur Clyde Engle,
though few people know It. Some
ten years ago this man played with
the Nashville team, under the
watchful eye and economic regime
of the then redoubtable Newt
Fisher.
Still another player of the Boston
team who played in the Southern
league is Neal Ball, utility man
You all remember Ball. Bill
Smith picked him up from the
Central league In 1907 and brought
him down for a trial. He and Lou
Castro were the candidates for the
shortstop position. Lou was in sur
prisingly good shape that spring,
while Bali, who showed great prom
ise, couldn’t get away from a sore
wing that bothered him from the
day practice started. So Smith sold
Ball to Montgomery. He made good
there with an awfpl rush and was
sold that fall for a corking good
price.
Let it not be forgotten also that
Steve Yerkes put in a year in the
South He played with Chatta
nooga and showed no particular
brilliance.
»How America
Lost the Trophy
In Motor Boat Racing
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A sportsman is a good loser.
That’s how Commodore Black
ton and the Atlantic Yacht Club
feel about the International
Motor Boat Races.
In the October Motor Boating Magazine
you will get the whole story of this great
water battle for national honors in speed and
dependability. Baby Reliance 11. the
American defending champion—had the
speed, but the fine little Britisher took the
Harmsworth trophy back to England be-
YOUT cause she proved more dependable in choppy
water.
dealer M OTO R B GATING
for this month gives a complete analysis of
pOF th 6 elimination "trials” which were aver-
itable survival of the fittest. The details of
Motor the several boat are also intensely interest-
ing. delving as they do, into the finer ques-
Oo3.tini?. tion pl an es, construction and
® comparison.
li.> This is Probably the most enlightening J
11 o ULlol and interesting of any Motor Boating ar- |
. tide that has appeared in a long time. Ask
VUL your newsdealer for a copy—he has it or will
get it for you.
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