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SLOW GROUNDS
BEAT GIANTS
By Rube Marquard.
BOSTON. Oct. 12.—Haas off to the
Red Sox! 1 have no excuse to of
fer for our defeat yesterday
But still that Boston team sure had all
the breaks with them, while our boys
were unfortunate In their hitting
Before I go any further, let me say
that the (M»nt» are still very much in
the running and that we will cop.
Wood 1w out of the way now.
The only chstnce Joe has of working
again win be ts the aeries stretches out
•s long as-next Tuesday. And he won’t
be any too good then, for he put every
thing he had on the boll yesterday, and
I noticed as he walked to the L«mch aft
er the seventh and eighth Innings that
he rubbed his right forearm. All of
■which means that the old wing must
have been tiring up on him.
"I Work Monday," Says Marquard.
As I came down to the station last
night two fans were arguing as to who
would pitch today for the Giants—
Watty or yxturs truly.
One of them said that I would sure he
•ent back today.
Well, I knew then that there wasn't
a chance in the world that I would work
fcafore Monday.
I beflwee 1 could have gone In today
•nd won my game, but I wouldn't mint
*o trffce a eha nee. The old arm Is still a
little Bare and I won't be in top notch
■ form befbre Monday But watch my
old hop b«UI sail over then.
Tesreau w!U be a* his best by Tues
tdtvy. and, believe me. that boy Is sure
tgo get »n even break from "Dame For-
I tune” by that time He certainly <le
'•erves to have Ms above of luck bettors
’tong; ft has been breaking against him
Koo mudh so far.
Slow ground beat us out of yester
day's game
If the Infield ba<i been hard and fbjrt.
Jtwo of Wagner's nsalat end two of
TYerkee’ would have gone for hits that
rwould haw scored runs.
We were hitting the pill good and
'4mrd, and on rhe ground, too. but the
.soft soil slowed up the drives to such
t«D extent that the keystone duo of the
‘Red Box got away with things that
'Should have never been
Joe Wood's Smoke Was There.
I must give credit to Joe Wood foe
the great game he pitched. He had a
foot hop on hie "«ir»tAe boll” and his
curve was working much better than It
did last Tuesday
But J. Wood will never beat the
Giants again
Please paste this prediction In your
•bonnet.
Tesreau worked altogether too fast
yesterday When he < ante in after ths
first Inning. I grabbed him by the arm
and pulled him over to where I mu
sitting
"Jeff.'' I said, 'take your time Do
like I did in Boston, and those fellows
will never get a run.''
But Tesreau failed to listen to my
advice, or maybe he forgot it all when
hr got out there with the 40,00<)-odd
fans x oiling at him
AMERICAN-OWNED HORSE
WINS ENGLISH CLASSIC
KEMPTON PARK. I.NGLAXD, Oct
—Adam Bede, owned In Walt' i Wi
nans. of Ame>b a, won the Imle of
York's stakes of SIO,OOO to'lax Mono
tone was sei olid and llanerton third
The betting vxi s tilaui Bed' ~lon to
9; Monotone lou to 6. and Haun-'top.
100 to 7. Twelve horses ran
SOCCER PLAYERS PERFORM
The Atlanta soccer football club wilt
hold a practice game inis afternoon at
Piedmont park ill playem and an?
others .ntete-ted tn the gium i-> q g,
rto I", on hand, as a I. am vx itl be ■ nohen
to |» v m mu < h Kalin *nh Lithonia «»<
Fog Covers Field as Players
Practice for Today’s Battle
By Billy Smith.
FaENWAY PARK, BOSTON, Oct.
12.—A fog so thick that It al
most completely obscured the
bleacherites’ view of home plate
hung over this ball field this aft
ernoon an hour before the Giants
and Red Sox were to meet in the
fifth battle for the baseball cham
pionship of the world.
Conditions for a ball game could
haVe been'worse. The mist was so
thick and heavy that it was almost
impossible to see a fly ball The
outfield was soggy, but the infield
was in a little better condition.
The threatening weather, how
ever, did not dampen the fans, who
flocked in by thousands.
The Giants were warmly greeted
at 12:50 o'clock when they went on
the field, but a demonstration last
ing nearly two minutes was given
the Red Sox when they walked on
the field a few minutes later.
The friendly feeling that existed
between members of the rival teams
In the early games was missing to
day and bitterness was evident in
Its place.
This, no doubt, was caused by
Speaker’s argument with Herzog
Wednesday and Wagner* verbal
encounter with Fletcher yesterday,
following Wagner’s charge that
Fletcher tried to spike Catcher
Cady.
The fog was so heavy that fly
balls driven at the outfielders in
practice passed by them or drop
ped alongside, totally unobserved.
No Alabi For Defeat.
The smoke ball artist beat the
Giants cleanly and decisively at the
Polo grounds yesterday, and the
New York players know It. They
have no alibi. They need none.
The Boston players are no
stronger In their praise of the work
of Wood than are the National
league champions. His terrific
speed on a cloudy day was an abso
lute revelation to them; and though
every artifice known to McGraw
was brought Into play. Wood was
always master of Hie situation t
The one silver lining to the cloud
of disappointment to New York is
that Wood was hit harder by the
Giants ou his second out than on
his first
Coming over on the train last
night, some of the Giants told me
that they were Inclined to believe
that, with a faster field and a clear
day, they would have stood a bet
ter chance.
The lack of light yesterday fa
vored Wooxi's speed, and the heavy
ground made it possible for Wag
ner and Yerkes to make stops of
balls that on a fast ground would
have gone for safeties
It is true that the Giants outhlt
the Boston team, but Wood's mas
tery came to the front when the
safe swats were needed Joe twirled
a game that will go down In
world’s series history as a master
piece.
Joe's generalehip was just as
good its his physical abilitx
One Play Ruined Giants.
The one play that broke up the
Giants' attack xxa- the remarkable
stop of McCormick's bullet - like hit
by Y'-rkes and his perfei t throw
that nailed Fletcher at the plate
The whole game hung on that play.
If it had gone through. M.Gtaxx
xxmild have l>. • n . i edited with hav
ing Staked his all on a ilium.> and
won As it was, lie took the plunge
and lost
With Fl' tx her <>«i st i olid and a
elmuce t" ti. the store. Harrx M> -
"'otiniek ~as sent in as a pinch hil
l. i for Testa .iu Harrx landed
■ l< anlx. but on account of the liea x y
turt 'Io bah bounded a trifle -low
ly ~nd Y'ik. - o.inag.d tn knock
it 'l'l*ll Fl" t' Io i had stalled lor
lllinf 'Xltli the ti,. k of (lie Inal
aii'i ■« h« tntis d i lilni 1i t Kes
was still diving after the ball,
"Go on!” yelled McGraw.
In a flash the New York mana
ger had ijeclded to take the chance
and risk tho game on that play.
Yerkes then made one more des
perate reach for the ball, and came
up with it. It was two to one that
he would not make a perfect throw
to the plate, but he proved that he
was made of the right kind of stuff,
and shot the ball to Cady with the
accuracy of a rifle ball. Fletcher
was out by several feet. More
over, he was so cleverly blocked off
from the plate that he couldn't have
got-ln with a jimmy.
McGraw Gambled and Lost.
Many of the experts were in
clined to criticise McGraw’s judg
ment for taking such a chance, but
if It had gone through he would
have been hailed as a great gen
eral.
Baseball is a game of chance.
The gamblers instinct is often of
more value to a team than ultra
conservatism, such as lost the game
for Boston two days ago.
The man who really put the
Giants out of the running was
Charley Wagner, the wonderful
shortstop of the Red Sox. On three
occasions this remarkable fielder
ran back of second and dug up
grounders that looked sure hits His
arm was as true as a sling-shot,
and each of the three runners was
out by an eyelash. On a dry
ground all of these would have
gone for hits. That is why the
Giants feel that the fates conspired
against them. In making that ex
planation, they ano not attempting
to detract from the work of the
wonderful Wagner. He sized up
the situation and played according
ly. The fact that he was aw'are of
tlie slow groupd and judged the
speed of the bounds on that basis
makes his work just as brilliant.
Everybody "Plays Fair.”
In one respect this series stands
out over all others. A spirit of the
cleanest kind of sportsmanship by
players and spectators has been
manifest since the fight started.
The New York crowds cheer the
great work of opposing players
just as they do their own heroes,
and the same thing is true in Bos
ton.
NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY
LAW IS TO BE TESTED
NTDW YORK. Oct. 12. Suit to test
the right of the government to enforce
the federal law of August 24. 1912. re
quiring newspapers and periodicals to
publish their circulation figures twice a
year, and Imposing other publicity re
quirements, has been filed in the t’jiit
ed States district court here by The
Journal of Commerce ami Commercial
Bulletin Company, publishers of The
Journal of Commerce.
BOYS GUNNING FOR CAT
SHOOT WOMAN INSTEAD
LAPORTE IND, Oct 12 John
Kratt and Fred Rrockhtius, mere boys,
borrowed a rifle to kill a cat The bul
let went wild striking Mrs William
Hellman, a neighbor, who may die,
J. J. HILL BUYS A BANK
WITH $1,240,000 CHECK
ST BAI L MINN . Oct 12 James .1
Hill has completed the purchase of the
Second Nation.i: bank of- elt\ Hi;
gav> his personal clink lor |L24''.Ooo
fol the piope: t> .
18-POUND LOBSTER
IS RECORD CATCH
NEW V»»Rk <ht r, » njhivvn
pnund lobstri, tin IklKvnl *\<l CHUght.
Huonlinii l<» L*»ng fishermen. hn«
h. « n ■ i|<tut» , '| mt .< bl.u K fl’h h<Hik in
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• Attendance 36,502: •
• Receipts $76,644 •
• NflW YORK. Oct. 12.—The na- •
• tional commission's figures for at- •
• tendance and receipts at yes- •
• terday’s game were: •
• Paid attendance, $36,502; total •
• receipts. $76,644; national commls- •
• sion's share, $7,644.40; players’ •
e share, $41,387.76: each club’s share, •
• $13,795.92. •
• Four games have been played •
• In the world’s series and •
• from now on the players get no •
• share in the receipts. However, •
• an incentive to play still remains, •
• for each player on the winning •
• team will get over $1,300 more •
• than the losers. •
• Figuring on the basis of 22 •
• players to each team, each winner •
• will receive $4,026.50, against $3,- •
• 654.59 received by the victorious •
• Athletics last seaspn. Each loser •
• will receive $2,682.21, against $2,- •
• 436.39 received by each Giant In •
• 1911. •
• The attendance figures for the •
• four games this year show 137,- •
• 004, against 126,138 in 1911. The •
• total receipts . for 1912 for four •
• games show $273,282, against $236,- •
• 671.50 In 1911. •
• The players’ share is $147,571.70 •
• this year. 60 per cent of which •
• goes to the winners, or $88,543,J4, •
• and $59,028.76 to the losers. The •
• players divided $127,910.61 last •
• year. •
• The clubs have received S9B.- •
• 391.86 this year, or $49,195.90 each, •
• against $85,273.74 last year. •
• The national commission has •
• received $2,7238.50 this year. •
• against $23,487.15 last year. •
Pipe Dreams
X
Glad tidings from the coast inform
us that Luther McCarthy is making a
deep impression. Full many a white
hope has made a deep impression on
the mat.
* • •
Yes, gentle reader, John J. McGraw
will miss the manly form of J. Franklin
Baker, but there are times when ab
sence makes the heart grow fonder.
» ♦ •
Reading "tabulated dope on the
world’s series is highly diverting and
would be useful but for the fact that
baseball is not played °n an adding
machine.
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FRANK CHANCE
In Short Pants.
i According to Sid Mercer.)
1906 -Peerless Leader—l9o9
1910 — Fearless Leader—l9ll.
1911 — Cheerless Leader —1912.
1912 Beerless Leader .
MERCER RATHER WORRIED
OVER GAME WITH HOWARD
MACON. GA., Oct. 12. Mercer meets
Howard this afternoon in Birmingham
As to just what the score will be it is a
good guess For while Mercer ap
peared to have good prospects the first
of the season, it is hard to tell just
what they will be able to do now. At
the first of 'he season the prospects
were the best the Baptists had had In
some years, and they started off at a
ptetty good rate against Gordon but
their defense was weak enough to allow
Gordon to score It was thought that
this weakness of the line had been
remedied, but it evidently had not.
judging from the game last Saturday
with Auburn. A great deal of work
has been done on the line this week
and it should have been Improved, but
as most of the mi tt are green it is hard
to tell just what they will do under
tire Captain No l man says that they
will win and by a good score, but othet
dop» - here, are running most any way.
MEN'S MEETINGS AT Y. M. C. A.
The mens meetings at the Vcung
Men's Christian association are to be
rt« ttneil The first will be held next
Siu day afternoon al .1 o'clock, when
Rex Ru-wll k smith Speak* on
Training sot Life!" 11l men uie in
x 11. tio at fend.
‘ 4 Wood and Wagner Deserve
Credit for Victory’’-Carrigan
By BiH Carrigan.
(Red Sox Great Catcher.)
BOSTON, MASS., Oct. 12.—Yes
terday our boys looked more
like their old selves than at
any time since the series began.
Yesterday’s victory was due to
the phenomenal pitching of Joe
Wood and the sensational fielding
of Heine Wagner.
I doubt If any one ever saw a
shortstop make three more diffi
cult plays in one game than Wag
ner did in that game. The hits on
which these plays were made were
not terrific grounders, but they
were batted in such away that
only a player of the first class could
have made them.
Had Wagner failed, the hits
would have gone for singles and
very lucky ones at that.
Yerkeg Made Grand Play.
Aside from the grand work of
Wagner and Wood, a play of
Yerkes saved us from letting the
Giants into a tie score.
A fine one-handed catch by Lew
is and the catching of Cady were
the other strong points of our game
which enabled us to chalk up a vic
tory.
I think we have demonstrated
FODDER FOR FANS
The directors of the Missouri Pacific
railroad advanced a directors’ meeting
one hour In order to take in the world’s
series game In New York.
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The Sox won the first in New York.
They tied and lost In Boston They won
again in New York.
What good is a home diamond to cham
pions ?
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If Joe Wood keeps right on improving
consider, please, his probable excellence
on Monday or Tuesday (provided there
Is any game).
The Reds have finished their annual
fall barnstorming trip, with no casual
ties -
a ♦ a
Harry Weust, the Cincinnati fighter,
went to New York to see the world’s
series And while he was there he picked
up a fight, which is to come off Monday.
The second day of the world’s series
Dick Finley, who caught for the Giants
when they won the world’s series in 1889,
died of heart disease at Asbury Park.
The sympathy of all baseball managers
goes out to Joe Birmingham, who has
just signed his contract as Nap man
ager for 1913. This is one time where
"13” is likely to prove an unlucky num
ber for Joe.
• • •
Some dopester, with a tolerably long
head, lias figured It out that no big hit
ting was reasonably to be expected from
either Doyle or Tris Speaker. He
alleges that, while these men did fine
TICKET SCALPERS HIT
PRINCETON MANAGEMENT
PRINCETON. N. J., Oct. 12.—Deter
mined to keep the tickets for the "big
games" out of the hands of scalpers
the Princeton university football man
agement has announced that all pur
chasers of tickets must sign contracts
not to sell them at a profit or to
strangers. Heretofore there has been a
verbal agreement between the purchas
er and the management that tickets
would not be resold, but as this has
not prevented speculators from getting
possession of a considerable number,
xhe new policy has been adopted. i
AUSTRALIAN TRIP NOW
INTERESTS J. JOHNSON
CHJf'Alto. Oct 12.—Following his
intimation that he might tight l.m
Flynn again. Jack Johnson today is
considering the offer of Hugh Mcln
tosh for two fights in Australia
W. C I Kelly. Hugh Mclntosh's rep
resentative will hold a x'onference late
in the day ami a decision xx 111 be reach
ed Jack Curley. Fix tin’s manager, has
offe eii Johnson $30,000 to fight Flynn
In Paris. o> he will stage the tight in
Vnerlca on a perct ntagi ba*L Jack
■* eonsldi'iang aicx-ptlng both tin Flynn
- " • 4 ost rallan offer
that we are all I claimed before
the series began—that we have a
steady team, game to the core, and
one that can win from the front or
win from behind.
Wood will beat Tesreau every
time they meet. If the series goee
beyond Monday, which I doubt. Joe
will be ready on Tuesday again.
Perhaps Stahl might pitch him on
Monday.
Joe pitches from 110 to 125 balls
a game, as the series has gone so
far. In this kind of weather it
would not be asking too much of
him to go in the box every three
days.
Tesreau Pitched Fair Game.
For New York, Tesreau pitched a
good game, about like the one
O’Brien pitched for us against
Marquard. If these two come to
gether again in the series—that is.
O’Brien and Marquard —my money
will go on our man.
Gardner is at last in his stride,
and I think the New Yorks will
find him a man io be feared from
now on. He has fielded his position
perfectly all through the series.
FERNS SCORES KNOCKOUT.
ST. LOUIS. Oct. 12—Clarence
("Wildcat”) Ferns, of Kansas City,
knocked out Art Magirl, of Oklahoma,
in the second round of their scheduled
eight-round go here last night.
batting for the season, neither did much
in the last six weeks of the season and
alleges further that the performances to
dope by are those of the recent past
and not those of the remote past.
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The Highlanders have promised Ganzel
a couple of players at lhe first of the
next season, but Farrell xloesn't give the
Rochester mogul much information as to
who they will be.
• • •
'l'he Boston Nationals want George
Stallings as manager, under a one-year
contract. George wants a three-year
contract. Hence the hitch.
♦ • ♦
Joe Wood has not yet readied the rec
ord mark for strike-outs in a world’s
series, although he has been reaching
for It. In the first game he fanned
eleven Yesterday he worked on eight
of the Giant batters The record Is
twelve, made by Ed Walsh, in the White
Sox-Cubs series.
* * .
Nobody who saw Yerkes play during
his Southern league days ever expected
he was slated to prove the hero of a
world s series game.
* * •
Then, on the other hand, nobody to
see George Rohe bat these days in a
Southern league would ever judge that
he once broke up a world s series with
his swatstick.
* * ♦
The Athletics surely made hash of
the Phillies in the post-season series.
Wonder if Fogel is laying that to the
umpires, ‘too.
CHANCE OR EVERS MAY
LAND JOB WITH REDS
CINCINNATI. Oct 12. Despite the
statement by Max Fleischmann, one
of the owners of the Cincinnati ball
club, that Manager Chance is not want
ed, the rumor of a deal between the
Reds and Chicago Cubs will not down,
and information today is that a big
trade is soon to be pulled off. It Is said
that Johnny Evers or Frank Chance is
concerned in the deal. Should either
one come here he will be made mana
ger.
Nothing can be learned officially, for
President Herrmann and other club of
ficials are in Next "York. However,
there is a man close to the affairs of
the club xx ho declares that there will be
something doing immediately after the
big play-off.
President Herrmann denied today in
Neu York that he is after Frank
Chance to manage his club He also
denied that he had released Hank
O'Dux. ns a local paper stated this
morning
Chance, it is said, has stated that he
would like to take hold here. At first
it XX as i bought that Miller Huggins had
th inaid" track
P esident Murphx and Manage
I’haii'" declined to di‘i uss the report
last night.
WAGNER - YERKES
WINNERS OF THE
FOUHME
By John “Chief” Meyers.
(Catcher of the Giant ClubT)
Boston, mass., oct. 12.—wo 0f
beat us yesterday. I predict
ed that he would not be abl«
to come back so strong as he started
and I was right Joe was an altogether
different man from his first start. His
first game was far the better, in the
pinches he was able to unload such ter
rific speed as to make batting a matter
of ordinary guesswork.
If ever there was a day made to or
der for such "smoke" as Wood showed
us Tuesday, he enjoyed it at the Pole
grounds yesterday. But the speed
wasn’t there.
Joe depended yesterday on his curve
ball in pinches, and by his very bold
ness “crossed” the Giant batters sot
several innings,
I think that every one who saw the
game Friday will agree with me that
toward the end we were hitting hirr
harder than he has been hit In the ma
jority of his games this year.
The Red Sox have no greater advan
tage over us than they enjoyed after
the opening game.
We went to Boston before and fought
the Red Sox to a standstill on their own
grounds.
What we have done we should re
peat.
Wood Is Stumbling Block.
Wood is the only pitcher Stahl showed
us who puzzled us In the least. He
has won two games for Boston. He
will have to win as many more if we
are to be cheated in our aspirations.
I do not think he can do this. The first
game took the edge off him. He can
not come back with two days rest
Boston will be forced to use Wood
Monday or take second place in the
standing.
Once let us get out In front and there
will be no stopping us.
Wagner and Yerkes Wen It.
The credit of Boston’s victory doesn't
belong to Wood. It belongs to Wagner
and Yerkes. There never was any pret
tier playing about that keystone sack
than yestreday. I had to admire, while
inwardly cursing, it
Wagner made three of the most sen
sational robberies ever perpetrated on
a baseman.
Yerkes pulled the headiest play of the
day, however, and one that hurt the
worst of all. It cut down Fletcher at
the plate with what we all believed was
the tying run. That was in the sev
enth, when McCormick came over with
a pinch poke. The ball shot right
through the box and dead over second
How Yerkes ever got back where he
did I can’t Imagine. But he did and
cuffed down the ball besides. He knew
he didn’t have a chance for the batter
so he stalled a bit In retrieving the ball
which he rolled away from him. Fletch
er had started with the rap. He ha
rounded third when Yerkes recovers':
and looked certain of scoring. Yerkes
however, threw perfectly and nailed hi*
ma n.
NOTED LECTURER COMES
TO ATLANTA TOMORROW
Dr. Karl Jansen, the famous Swedish
lecturer and entertainer, will appear
the Jewish Educational alliance on ' 1 -
tober 13 at 8 o’clock in a number of
impersonations. He also will deliv" :
a lecture. Love, the vlolini-’
will appear on the program,
Mr. Jansen for ten years has b" •
noted for his ability as an ente*tainei.
and his story. "Theima Homt." mag
nificent. X
TOM KILBANE OUTCLASS
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA. Got »
Pai kev M< Far'an<l merely played
Tommy Kilbane, of Cleveland
-• ven round* when the referee stopi ■
the flea-