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14 <®OMAN OWI® y DMSTO E/DITLD VP. S FARNSWORTH MEYERS SEES NO REASON TO BE DEJECTED Ry John “Chief*' Meyers. (Famous Catcher of the Giants.) Boston, mass,, <><t. t». isatd this morning that we hadn't lost the championship yet, and I say it louder now I believe it truly, •lake Stahl used his trump card at Polo Grounds yesterday. It is quite true that he landed a victory by doing It hut still a victory that is likely to tell against him in the long run Fat from disheartening the Giants the reverse is true. It has put new determination in them. If we approached the series with any trepidation our first game with the Hub team certainly dispelled ft Thinks Giants Are Best. 1 do not wish to insinuate any thing against the skill either of Joe Wood or the Red Sox w hen I say that in my estimation the Giants so m a better combination. Stahl fired his big gun in tne first skirmish Wood yoste day proved liimrelf a very masterful pitcher. He had a lot of stuff I wasn't particularly impressed in fact, I didn't pay much attention so what Wood did have till he winged me in that seventh Inning. Boys, he had smoke. Wood is Good, But Can't Last. Yet, after all. Wood did not im press me as a fellow who Is likely I to come back with a day's rest like our Tesreau can. He depends too | much on speed. That is bound to sap his reserve energy and his re cuperative powers. Wood showed us nothing like the speed Bender displayed against Mathewson the opening game a year ago. He is not so hard a pitch er to beat. Bender mixed up terrific speed with a beautiful curve that he was never afraid to use. He kept a batter guessing every’ minute. Wood sticks to his speed and when a club has a chance to guage it properly J do not think his pitching will be found as effec tive as that of Connie Mack's great Indian. Wood on Run in Ninth, We did not do much with Wood at first, but no one can deny that we gave him a very uncomfortable z time of it in the ninth inning Boston will be without the services of their greatest twirler for the next few days No other man on that club is likely to show us so much in nine Innings Rut we Giants should have as good pitching every day. Jeff Tesreau will get revenge, mark my words. He pitched wonderful ball yester day certainly as fine as anything ever handled. Here was a green young pitcher in his first world's series opposed to the classiest pitcher of the Amer ican league He bore himself nobly. He was not out-pitched. He was out-lucked. He will come back, and come back strong I look for him to pitch the next game at the Polo Grounds, and then he will show even more stuff than he displayed yesterday. LESTER POUNDS HOWARD UNTIL COPS INTERFERE ER* NEY. AUSTRALIA, Oct. 9. —Jack Leater lasi night defeated Jack Howard, a middleweight boxer of New South Wales, in thirteen rounds The police had to stop the right to save the Australian from serous Injury Ge<»’ge Stovall s wife hasn't missed a ball game in seven vears She advises all ball players tn marry which nic*t of them do "RED SOX ~ HAD ~LUCK? IS MARQUARD'S ALIBI By Rube Marquard. (One of Giant Pitching Star*.) Boston, mass oct 9. The Giant- are fighting mad now and nothing in the world can stop us Testeau's experience yesterday has taught him a fine lesson and al) the boys are banking on him to cop the next out He had every thing in the wot for six innings yesterday and made the Boston lacs stand on their ea'-i Hut he outpitched himself. He didn’t guage hi- st 1 ngt a 1 was the same way last year But 1 have learn 1 my lesson and you van bet that Jeff has now The next lime he starts he will tin se himself along, and 1 honestly be lieve that he will pitch a shut-out game. Wood hurled a -well game, but relied almost entirely on his fast nab 11. was busting 'em ov< • in the groove all tin time, but the lock broke with him for our bat ters weii unfot tunat' in summing th* pill right into somebody's hands Yes. then i- no denying that yertertbv. Ho Boston team had “• the link tn thi world wit ■> tb< tn If at find sei ut e<l tin breaa |Q HERE ARE THE PITCHERS ON WHOM McGRAW depends to hold red sox in check j * • - * j '7' : ¥ '| .’ A ■r •11 \'A 7 ' '/ \'V 14 \ J W • \ -W 77 if V l\ 1 V ' '/■ .L.. .J : 7 Copyright, 1912, by International News Service Marquard. Tesreau. Mathewson. Ames. Wiltse. Crandall. Rain Threatens to Spoil Second Game, But Shower Lasts Only Short Time---Doesn’t Interfere SOX BACKERS BET 2 TO 1 THEY WOULD WIN TODAY By Billy Smith. (Manager of the Atlanta Ball Club.) F-x EXM AY PARK, BOSTON, Oct. 9.—An hour before "play ball" called the Red Sox and Giants together In the second bat tle for the world’s championship, the bleacher seats were nearly filled with fanatical rooters, but there nan only a sprinkling of spectators in the reserved grandstand seats. An attendance of 31.00(1 was as sured by the ticket sale, however. The sun dropped behind the clouds about noon, and at 12:40, when the Boston team took the field, amid the frenzied plaudits of the crowd, it loked as if rain might fall before the second game was completed. The weather predic tions was rain tonight. /he victory of the Red Sox yes terday made them big betting fa vorites. and the early’ odds of 10 to 6 shifted this afternoon to 10 to 5 on oßston for the series. In one case a bet of S2OO to SIOO was made that the Red Sox would win today despite the fact that the vet eran Mathewson would be pitted against youthful Collins. The Giants came on the field at 12:50. but their advent only brought any one of a dozen times that we were in a position to cop it, it would have been a Giant victory and a Red Sox defeat After watching the Boston team closely. I believe thnt Wagner Is the man we will have to look out for more than any other one He Is a great ball player He w.itches every move of the op]H»sition and he is a bear for bunking up well mapped out plays 1 have heard remarks that Snod grass should have eaught Speaker's line drive to left center in tile sixth inning It was a clean three-bag ger Snodgras- ran with the speed of a deer and managed to get the sing. rs of his right band on the ball Hut no man in the world could have speared that clout lioyle played a corking game He puli' d off a stunt in that pesky s v etith spasm that set the crowd ■ i.’.’- With Wagner on second and * ady on first, with one down. ""•■I laced a fast b. ' on the nose It was headed about five feet to 111' tight of s»'i o|id and burning the ' I'"’ l.arry managed tn knock i ’ how n. but n i oing it h r t urn.cl 1 compete mmrsault Hut he " eil ov t r and wm< fast an bl- * i Hi tilii. . THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1912. •slight applause. The hig crowd of Gathamites who came to cheer their favorites did not take their seats until after 1 o’clock. Light Rain Falls. At 1:15 o'clock a little rain be gan. The darkening skies gave promise of considerable bad weath er before the completion of the game. x The rain proved to be only a light shower and stopped three minutes after it began. The Red Sox victory of yester daj had the effect of adding to their confidence, and they disported on the field in preliminary prac tice with a dash and vim that was pleasing to their supporters. The Giants, on the other hand, moved around with a "do or die" spirit. .McGraw had a heart-to heart talk with his men today and pointed out some of the opportu nities that were lost In the open ing game, and told his men in un varnished terms that they must take the game today. Lawson Offers Fat Prizes. Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston financier, offered $250 to any bats man who could hit a big sign bear ing his name back of the tempera ry bleachers in left field, and SI,OOO to any one whose batted ball broke the six-foot "System Slate" right alongside his name on the sign. Players on both sides during practice aimed (heir drives In the direction of the Lawson sign. At 1 45 o’clock a chilly wind swept across the field, bringing oven-oats and furs into evidence. The Boston band, wearing red suits with white trimmings and white belts, arrived at 1 :48 o’clock and played some lively tunes. \t the„ same time the overflow in the reg ular bleachers was allowed in the • field and it camped behind a big railing Mayor Fitzgerald made a speech, presenting Jake Stahl with an automobile and Shortstop Wag ner with a silver bat. while the crowd cheered and a delegation of rooters, headed by a band, paraded the field Empire < ('Loughlin of ficiated behind the bat. Empires Klein and Evans, on the four lines, and Empire Rlgler, on the bases. The Giants and the Red Sox players < ante Into town on a spe cial t ain last night, bearing type writers and toting huge teams of copy paper Out of Bill Carri gan's pocket could be seen the edge of a dictionary and Chief Meyers carried a rapid calculator for fig uring the parabola. XI! of them were accompanied by stenogra phers, and when any one made a pointed rental k they order him to put that dow n " Boston Very Confident. The w nnnig of tin first game mad. ’ll' Ito-lon hellos so Cl wine:ng (he s> l< s i hat ' . i>f»< d .-dil* o' 2 to l tn- 'mt < g io r... i t.derwiainiing that Mathewson was to pitch this afternoon, the betting on today's game was at even mon -y. Snodgrass' Mistakes Costly. Among ball players and other followers of tile game, it is the opinion that the turning point In the first game was Snodgrass' bad 'play in the sixth, in running in front of Devore to get a drive from Speaker’s hat. only to miss it. This gave the Red Sox a run. Devore was set and waiting to catch the ball when Snodgrass went on his wild stampede and crossed him. Snodgrass' defense is that he did not know that Devore was waiting for the ball and that, as he heard no warning, he kept going. Devore sfoutly maintained that he called for Snodgrass to get out of the way. but his voice was prob ably drowned in the noise of the crowd. This play was not only unfortu nate for Snodgrass, hut it appar ently unnerved Tesreau and he weakened in the following inning. Doyle Had Hard Luck. Another play in which the Giants got the worst of it was when Doyle stumbled in thi seventh inning and was prevented from making a double play which would have re tired Boston without a run, Larry got the ball cleanly and had a. double plaj right in his grasp, but when he started for second base he Dipped and lost the great chance. That was one of the sad dest blows of the game to the Giants. There was still another chance in that inning to cut off the Boston runs, but this time the bad break fell to the lot of Chief Meyers. There were two strikes on Hoop er when he lifted a foul fiy that almost touched the screen. Mey ers ran back against the stand and scraped the skin from his hand in reaching for the ball, but missed it. if he had caught that foul fiy. New : York would have won the game The heavy hitting of the Sox proved to be a very much over estimated institution. They were really weak with the stick as com pared with the Giants, but they managed to get theirs in a lump ami imide them count. McGraw Overlooks a Bet. Many of the fans in Boston are inclined to believe that McGraw made a bull yesterday In the last half of the ninth by not send ing Becker to bat in place of Fletcher, who had already struck out twice. With runnels on sec ond and third and only one out, the chance foi victory was tn the palm of the battel s hands. It oke ! as if a left-hander Would have a better chanct than a right lander against Wood, and when I•' '-k< I w i.- called from the- m-nch • Velw op. thought men Becker him . f, 1 it hi was going in <«■ a pitlill lilttii. -instead Met.,raw sent him to second to run for Meyers. Last night Becker rather naively remarked: "I'd a darned sight rath er been in there hitting inste .d of running." Based on the shovving of the Sox in the first game, they do not com pare with the Athletics as a ball club. Their attack is wabbly and uncertain, and their defense is nothing extraordinary. The throw ers had little chance to show what they could do. Sox Play Old-Fashioned Game. In attack the Red Sox played only the "old army game" yester day, and not ome did they de viate. Once a runner got on first they advanced him with a sacri fice or attempted to. To show tlie futility of that style of baseball, the Sox made a bloomer of it two times out of three. As a surprise, .Murray also tried the sacrifice play and as a result doubled up himself and Snodgrass. The Giants had a chance to show their first flash of speed in the third yesterday and fleftness alone gave them two runs. With Devore on first. Doyle dumped a looping hit into left field and with- q i'" ~ “In Your Window I I • Jlllik SAW A HAT” 'I liked it and came in. Then I saw auoth- * ei ’ n °eded and 4MW BOUGHT TWO Don't show me any more—your styles • are irresistible, I might have to buy three! qjr Scratch Felt, in varied blocks and brims. $3 to $4. Beaver finish, varied blocks in mole and steel color, $5. 'vfc r ]f ‘'lAAy? *7 Kersey, >2 to $3.50. \x || u 11 (’loth Hats, silk sewed or rough finish, $1.50 to $2.50. \\ ;1 i \\ A l ! Derbies in the new low crown ami wide brim, al"' ea -,j <-* I Regular Kelts, in the standard shapes. gray ami black. $3 to $5. ?TP j Velour, the richeat of colors and textures $6.50. yA Capa, for outing, college or school, 50c to $2. ■ PARKS CH AMBERS ■%' : HARDWICK CO. I ■ 37-39 Peachtree Atlanta, (la _ out even hesitating Devore shot into third like a streak. Stealing Isn’t Popular. A feature of the first game was that only one man attempted to steal a base and he was thrown out by ten feet. Stahl tried it in the second inning, but Meyers’ aim was so unerring that not an other man started. The work of both Catchers Cady and Meyers was absolutely flaw less, They handled their pitchers perfectly and watched first base so closely that no one had a chance to get a lead. Managers McGraw and Stahl this morning expressed satisfaction with the work of their teams. Stahl says he realizes that his club is in for a tough fight, notwithstanding the opening victo ry, and McGraw agrees with him. A Buffalo paper announces that the fol lowing galaxy of glittering talent is covering the world's series for them: Sister Pankhurst. Doc Cook, Lieut. Becker (inside stuff). Bill Riggs. Conan Doyle. Barney Oldfield, Rose Pitnoff, Prof. Erlich. Joe Walcott. 'CAMIGANTHINKS SOX WILL WIN 4 SEME By Bill Carrigan. (Star Catcher of the Red Sox.) Boston, oct. 9. —After sizing up the Red Sox and the Giants. I believe we win win the series with ease. We won the first clash, as we won many a game in the Ameri can league season—we came from behind, overhauled a two-run lead in the seventh, stood the strain of a heartbreaking last half of the ninth and won out, 4 to 3. I want to give Joe Wood credit for the great game he pitched and Forrest Cady for the great g a n e ne caught. Wood Showed Courage. Joe simply pitched the very way he has pitched all season to me. He showed at his best when things were breaking bad for him in the last inning, when he kept his nerve, tightened tip and struck out the last tp’o batters, one of them (Crandall) among the best stickers in the National game, "v It was a beautiful finish for Wood. He showed nerve, confi dence, stamina. Taken altogether, it was a most wonderful performance, especi? v when one remembers that tiers were 40.00(1 partisans yelling like maniacs in an effort to get « nerve. Joe came through with fly ing colors. He did just what we all expected he would do. Sox Had Game Doped Out. We had the game all figured out at the start and things happened just about as we figured It. Take the case of Tesreau, for ex ample. 5' e decided to play a wait ing game at the start; then to ward the close, if things went right and when he might be expected to be tired from his efforts and from natural nervousness, to go after him. This is exactly what we did. in the first three innings Tes reau issued three passes, and while we were not able to turn them into a count, he was pitching , hard all the time. Eventually, we ’ got to him and knocked him out , of the box with four solid hits, in cluding a fine two-bagger in the seventh inning. The Giants played a high class of ball, but it seems to me as though they were a different team at various stages of the game. When they’ secured that two-run lead and held it for three innings they were full of "pep." but when we got that one run In the sixth we could see a difference in them, and when we scored three more in the seventh they looked dead. I don’t blieve Tesreau will both er us any more. We have hl." measure. If he pitches against us again, we may not use the same attack, but I believe we will get him just the same. UHLAN BREAKS RECORD: TROTS ONE MILE IN 1:58 LEXINGTON, KY„ Oct. 9.—Thre* world's records wore broken at the opening day of the Kentucky Ho ’’ Breeders association meeting here to day. Uhlan, racing against time, low ered the trotting record, held by Ly Dillon for seven years, to 1:58 flat ■ •’* former record of 1:59 1-2 was made at Memphis. The sixth heat of the Ken tucky futurity was won by Manrtco n 2:07 1-4, a world's record for a stxtn heat. The aggregate time for the six heat in this race also made a new worlcn record. Manrico won the Kentucky trotting classic after six heats. The Tennessee, for 2:05 pacers, was only a walkove for Braden Direct. Pickles proved some what of a disappointment and the nest she could do was to land third mone ■