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GOSWi ' GOTW * EKEre* _ EDITLD s EARNS'WORTH Mutt Declined To Be Broken of His Rest :: :: . :: By “Bud” Fisher ..... - , _ CO-AH. POU / 1 ") XwogaMa, Hrf’ Hl*t A I tUw-g-g-T-v . HAt_U« CUT OJf I ||lhT*W Jli ' 1 TOU THIHK YOO 7 . AGfMN ? i hp 5 fl— r Mr>7 \ fl 1 | oV- M oC wi ii -i MAROUARDSfIYS 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 th** •••••••••••••••••••••••••a • 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. * • • 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. ■ * • 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 ? • • a 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. * * * 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-