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BASEBALL JURY RENDERS VERDICT ON YESTERDAY’S GAME XEW 'i ORK. Oct. !>. —Here are the opinions of baseball players and sporting writers of the United States, gathered from the articles which they wpote 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 hack and repeat his victory.” ■■Chief” Meyers. Giants’ catcher: • 1 know New York has the better team. The Giants are better hatters ami we have better pitchers.” Ty Cobb, of the Detroit Tigers: McGraw made a tala! 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. The situation in the-ninth inning would have broken the heart of any ordinary pitcher.” John J. McGraw, manager of the Giants: • H was a tough one to lose. I am making no excuses for the team nor the way in which the boys were handled. None is necessary. They played a good game and put up a good fight. The breaks went against us.” SERIES PRIMER — By R. W. LARDNER A is for Ames, with his pretty curve ball: Z-X McGraw didn’t think much of Leon last fall. •Z *■ But if Rube and Matty and Tesreau all fail, Then Leon may look like a regular whale. j 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; oh. 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. It 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. Fis for Fletcher, whose first name is Art; . He usfed to hold down a utility part. But now he's the shortstop for Johnny McGraw, And one of the fastest that you ever saw. Ca is 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; Re that as it may and be that as it will. Young Herzy can handle and wallop that pill. lis 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. Jis for Jake, which is not his real name. But all of his pals call him Jake just the same. He’s boss of the Red Six and covers first base. And wears a broad smile on the front of his face. Ki- for Krug, a utility guy. Did • iu ever hear of him? Neither did I. The reason tins Red Sex 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, hut my! how he throws: lb- ri >< i bear bn the -harp-shooting stuff; < >:ir friend. Gyp the Blood, ain't got nothing on Duff. Mi- for rkle and Mar<iuard. Oh, yes. It's also for Murray and Matty, I 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. Ono 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 th it 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. is for Pape; he is thin as a taper. Hi.- 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 Klein Conspired to thrdw the sharp hooks into them F) is for Robinson, big as a cow. L With Mtiggsy 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. i< 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. ''J a is for Tesreau. the latest white hope. I The star of the series, so says Gotham dope. "He'll shut them out sure if it happens he's right." But if you are wrong. Brother Tesreau—good night. Uis for Empires. There'll be four of them—, <’’Loughiin and Evans, and Rigler and Klent They II call all the close ones just right, or. by heavens. We'lf kill l<tem. tt'Loughlin, Rigler and Evans, \T is for Verse, with no one to put in It. / I gave it much thought before I did begin it. Vean Gregg and Vin Campbell ate not in the games. And V doesn't start any champions' names. AT T That stand:- for Wagner, not Honus, \/V But Heine is almost a 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? \ f i- fm Yerkes, called Boston’s weak spot. y Rut does Boston believe it? Well, certainly not You make an occasional boot or wild heave. But ohl Garland irtah s glad that he's got you, Steve Zis for Zip. Don't it scale 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 '.’ <>h, now you're too late. It's in Cady's big mitt. CHANCE OFFERED JOB OF LEADING LUCKLESS REDS: ‘ lII,, AG<>. ILL., O< t « That an ol ; her |) nia,!, 1,, I't al || 4 I I Ila 11. • ' ' u,il "' l th<- t.’hii ago Hubs. to han! i 1 ill' inn.(ti FL dsin xt season be- | I'innvn today. Garry Herrmann I •'lni an offer last week after a taimn with President Murphy of | !i ''s I'hance said he was bound i > made wh» n he sold hi a : ‘ *• rest in the <’uhs- to return to • •' 'eatn next y. ar if he i« wanted. ! 11 • would SH y nothing of Herr- 1 , ’ \ v until he learned positively I 1 ’ht ‘uh- wanted t<» offer him | * rH •»« ’ f”i next s. as.»n '.llk ft i ,t i>«f Then ( , J /J 1 ’ StuiHiien- Wanted . •<! , 1 I ht * Grerip.ti will assist ><»i. j T y NO Footer 1 RLADS /WVM ' .w v ? . ( fiOUL.{ Good advicl i /vevep klfwol, zo me l-‘‘. r TSHOE RENURY ' ' "L r MENDS v \ •'‘j \ >. j told pa thlip wok.k ■> *' l AL - L - THt CHARGE 1.5 9OCT.S. ro SEHZ gjSEi V ::: c o/v sole s z seraigh rtv LW’WjrTn AV' T HE MCA/E Y ',AV£ . HOW GOOD IT G/l'/A/' "ODA WATLi tu kI / '. f«E E, EOt-’n-ortK t ppoo^^ r ! '" L int. Mt as ttL.il/iPtD WF —Ost*-' X ' m * l^.^/, {SHO£RENURV THE ATT.ANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEI)NESI)AY, OCTOBER 9, 1912 ATTENDANCE OFF, ONLY 35,738 SAW GAME NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Tile 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 attendknee 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 game 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, On 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' team, 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 leagues last year. 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. THORPE MINGLES WITH REDEYE: LOSES VERDICT PITTSBVRGi 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 I nion 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 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 J and. Warner went to 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 veils that attracted ah the poller in two blocks. After Warner finished a little roughly Thorpe had lost his voice and w abbled cheerfully along Lib erty avenue with bis 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 w hich he is to be succeeded as manager bv George Stallings, of the Buffalo team this season. Kling said he did no* know whether he would be manager of the local club next year "If I am not retained f>» manager and can not secure my unconditional re lease." he says. "1 shall retire from baseball." Ex-Southern Leaguers Should Star in World’s Series Games By Percy IT. 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 league's greatest player and because he is the best advertised member of the team which is favored to win the wo ld's championship, ho 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 Soul hern 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 w hen they woke up to themselves the time had passed. 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 ft. 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 cit.v series. The'all-night rain ceased ala little after 5 o'clock and a brisk wind sprung up that sent hope into the hearts of the men who wended their way to Cumiskey 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 ers expressed fear that the rain mat have worked through and softened the field sufficient!} to prohibit playing today Walsh and I avender were picked to do the twirling for the game. MARTIN MAY ' 19i/ 2 PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES y for sale % 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 the game with expert skill down to the last thrown ball, lot 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 I have ever known.” “Bill ” Carrigan, catcher for the Red Sox : * “I believe we will win four straights. We have the best team in every department.” “Jeff Tesreau. who pitched seven innings for the Giants yesterday; “ I believe overconfidence is to blame. I lost after the Giants hail 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 Io 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. another player of the Boston team Vho 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 Ball, who showed great prom ise. couldn’t get away from a sore wing that bothered him from the day pra<*tice started. So Smith sold Bal) to Montgomery. He made good there with an awful 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 bi illiance. How America v L° s t ie Trophy ' \ n Motor Boat Racing 1 "" I / A sportsman is a good loser. \ / That’s how Commodore Black- ton an d tbe Atlantic Yacht Club \ i/ 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- AkSlc YOU!* cause she proved more dependable in choppy water. dealer MOTO® Bttfttffl® for this month gives a complete analysis of F OF the elimination “trials” which were aver- itable survival of the fittest. The details of iVlOtOr tbe severa l boats are also intensely interest- ing, delving as they do, into the finer ques- Boatinsf. tion of l en g tb > planes, construction and comparison. IllQf Tll ‘ S iS P robabl y tbe most enlightening L o JUol and i nteres ti n g o f anj £ Motor Boating ar- . tide that has appeared in a long time. Ask U your newsdealer for a copy—he has it or will get it for you. MOTOR BOATING 10 cents a copy 381 Fourth Ave. SI.OO a year New York City 116 BASES STOLEN BY HAP MYERS OF SPOKANE SPOKANE, WASH., Oct. 9.—The season of 1912 was notable in the Northwestern league for broken rec- This advertisement will causeseveral lhou ‘ ,an(l mcn to buy «heir first "John % A Ruskin” cigar. Those who usually 1 smoke 10c cigars will save a nickel O’; 1 ° n every Clgar *hey smoke in B 1 future. Those who smoke B K&f i i,<e I the ordinary nickel . igar B K' r 1 wib 11(1 longer like their favorite smoke, EXACT iu PP oS '.y° u P u t this ■ Bt'-lVvi)'' 1 SIZE to a test yourself—risk a nickel on your first “John (t Ruskin.” You will find it B I he most unusual cigar you ever jOCAffijr smoked. It is a better and bigger I c ' gar tban an - v °ther. In quality it tlle c< l ual of any 80,( l at 10c * because B *be Havana tobacco used is the equal of B the best grown on the island of Cuba. It is BRy strictly 'hand jnade by expert cigar makers. assures free and even burning—fragrant to |] le | a! ;t puff. Get a “John Ruskin” at your dealers to-day— Jr you’ve never smoked a better cigar. ' I. LEWIS CIGAR MFG. CO.,NEWARK, NJ. < The Largest. Independent Cigar Factory the World. Valuable Profit-Sharing Voucher in Each Box. J. N. HIRSCH, E. L. ADAMS & CO.. fifcj,.,. Distributors. Atlanta. Ga. ' ords, according to the final averages made public today. The most impor tant new record was that of Ralph ("Hap") Myers, of the Spokane club, who stole 116 bases. Official guide books show that in twenty years this record has not been equaled in organ ized baseball. 7