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By Rube Marquand.
BOSTON. Oct. 12. Hats off to the
Red Sox! I have no excuse to of
fer for our defeat yesterday
Rut still that Boston team sure had all
the brenXs with them, while our boys
■were unfortunate in their hitting
Before I go any furthi r. let me say
that the (Wants are still very much in
the running and that we will cop.
Wood is out of the way now.
The only chance Joe has of working
again will be if the Heides stretches out
a« long as next Tuesday And he won't
bo any too good then, for ho put every
thing he had on the ball yesterday, and
J noticed as» he walked to the bench 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 Mondgy," Says Marquard.
As I came down to the station last
night two fans were arguing as to who
would pitch today for the Giants —
Matty or yours truly.
One of them said that I would sure be
•ent back today
Well, I knew then that there wasn't
• rthance in the world that I would work
J>efr>re Monday.
I believe I could have gone in today
•nd won my game, bvrt 1 wouldn't want
to tnfce a chance. The old arm ts still a
little aerre and I won't be in top notch
form before Monday But natch my
old hop ball sail over then.
Tesreaai will be at his best by Tues
day. and. believe me, that boy is sure
•to get an even break from "Dame For
tune” by that time. He certainly de
serves to have his share of luck before
Jong; it has bear breaking against hltn
too much so far.
Slow ground bea.t us out of yester
day's game
If ibe infield had been hard and fast,
itwo of Wagners assist and two of
Terkee' would have gone for hits that
■would have scored runs.
We were hitting the pill good, and
hard and on the ground, too. but the
•oft soil Slowed up the drives to such
<n extent that the keystone duo of the
Red Sox got away with things that
Should have never been
Joe Wood'* Smoke Was There.
I must give credit to Joe Wood for
<the great gw me he pitched. He had a
foot hop on hie 'smoke baJl” and his
'curve was working much belter than It
■did last Tuesday.
. But J. Wood will never beat the
Giants again
Please paste this prediction In yout
bon n et.
Tesreau workeA a together too fust
yesterda' When he < ame 1n after ths
first inning. I grabbed him by the arm
and pulled Mm over to where I was
sitting.
■■Jeff.” 1 said, "take your time Do
like 1 did in Boston, and those fellows
w ill never get a run.”
But Tesreau failed to listen to my
advice, or may be he forgot it all when
he tot out ■ at* with tlie (0.000-odd
fa ns \ riling at him.
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Fog Covers Field as Players
Practice for Today’s Battle
By Billy Smith.
I-'ENWAY PARK, BOSTON, Oct.
t 12.—A fog ho thick that it al
most completely obscured the
bleacherites' view of home plate
hung over tills ball field this aft
ernoon an hour before the Giants
and Rod Sox were to meet in the
filth battle for the baseball cham
pionship of tlte 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, w ho
flocked in by thousands.
The Giants were warmly greeted
at 12: .>0 o'clock w hen 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 eaily games was missing to
day and bitterness was evident In
its place.
Thia, no doubt, was caused by
Speaker's argument with Herzog
Wednesday and Wagner's verbal
encounter with Pletcher yesterday,
following Wagner’s charge that
Fletcher tried to spike Catcher
Cadv.
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 heat 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 the situation.
The one silver lining to the cloud
of disappointment to New York is
that Wood was hit harder by the
Giants on his second out than on
his first.
Coming over on the train last
night, some of the Giants told me
that they were inclined Jo believe
that, with a faster field and a clear
day. they would have stood a bel
ter chance
The lack of light yesterday fa
vored Wood's speed, and the heavy
ground made it possible for W ag
tier and Yerkes to make stops of
balls that on a fast ground would
have gone for safeties
It is true that the Giants outhit
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 generalship was just as
good as his physical ability
One Play Ruined Giants.
The on* play ttiat broke up tile
Giants attack was the tern irkable
stop of McCormick's bullet-lik. hit
by Yerkes ami his perfect throw
that ndiled Ffetcher at the plate
The w hole game hung on that play ,
if it hud gone through McGraw
ild have been < edited w ith hav
ing stak' d ills all on a chance and
Aon As It W. - he took the plunge
and lost
"Uh det, in r on second and a
i n.'in-i .•• to (he scon , Harry Mi-
Co miek was sent in as a pirn h hit.
t* for T. strati Hat r\ landed
* nli lon on act'mnt of the heavy
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It flow it I letch bad 'tail'd lot
I 'did With thi ... of th' :»;«!.
j iiii't is Ih tinned ;nll> Y*‘Ckvs
THE ATLANTA GEORC' ‘N AND NEWS SATERDAV. OCTOBER 12. 1912.
was still diving after the ball.
“Go on!” yelled McGraw.
In a flash the New York mana
get had decided to take the chance
and risk the 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 light kind of stuff,
and shot the ball to Cady with the
accuracy of a rille ball. Fletcher
was out by several feet. More
over. he was so ch tel ly bloc!-; d off
from the plate that he couldn't have
got In 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 bad gone through he would
have been hailed as a great gen
eral.
Baseball is a game of chance.
The gambler's 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 whs 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 are 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 aware of
the slow ground and judged the
speed of the bounds on that basis
makes his w ork 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 lias been
manifest since the fight stalled.
The Now York crowds cheer the
great work of opposing players
Just as they do their own heroes,
and the same thing is true in Bos
tofi"
NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY
LAW IS TO BE TESTED
NEW YORK Oct. 12 Suit to test
the right of the government to enforce
the Federal law of August 24. 1912, re
quiring new spa tiers and periodicals to
publish theii circulation figures twice a
year, and Imposing other publicity re
qtiirements..has been tiled in the I'nit
ed States district court here by Th.
Journal of Commci re and Commercial
Bulletin Company, publishers of The
Journal of Commerce.
80YS GUNNING FOR CAT
SHOOT WOMAN INSTEAD
I.APORTE IND, Oct 12 John
Kratt and Fred Broekhaus. tm re boys,
borrowed a rifle to kill a cat. The bul
let went wild, striking Mis William
Hellman, a neighbor, who may die.
'J. J. HILL BUYS A BANK
WITH $1,240,000 CHECK
ST I' \ I 1. MIN N .• ■ i 12 Jan i
I Hill has completed the purchase of t ie
,Sc ond Nation, i bank of city H
gate his per sonal ,h* ok io 51.24U.000
lot ib prope ty
18-POUND LOBSTER
IS RECORD CATCH
M'W V< »Kl\ • I 1 \i . u ■• !1
pHiind mH ■ . • tin !•:;«’ <\ ••• t. t u;. h|.
M* • ordhig i'• I•• »ti u I tali'* i. mli< i in. n. < >
♦ u mi <t h;t h tlsh h«H»k In
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• Attendance 36,502; :
• Receipts $76,64% •
• NEW YORK, Oct. 12. -The na- •
• tional commission's figures for at- •
• tendance and receipts at yes- •
• terday's game were: •
• Paid attendavwe, $36,502; total •
• receipts. $76.614; national eommis- •
• sion’s share, $7,644.40; players’ •
• share, $41,387.76: each club’s share, •
• $13,795.92. •
• Four games have been played •
• in the yvorld'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 122 •
• play ers to each team, each winner •
• will receive $4.02(1.50. against $3,- •
• 654.59 received by the victorious •
• Athletics last season 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,- •
• 611.50 in 1911. •
• The players’ share is $147,571.70 •
• this year, 60 per cent of which •
• goes to the winners, or $88,543.14, •
• and $59,028.76 to the losers. The •
• players divided $127,910.61 last •
• 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 $2,72:18.50 this year, •
• against $23,487.15 last year. •
Pipe Dreams
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.
(According to Sid Mercer.)
1 1906 Peerless Leader -1909
1910 Fearless Leader —1911
1911 Cheerless Leader—l9l2
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 the season the prospects
| wete the best the Baptists hud had in
some years, and they started off at a
i pretty. good late against Gordon, but
their defense was weak enough to allow
Gordon to score It was thought that
i 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
land it should have been Improved, but
| as most of the men ate green it is bard
.i to tell Just what they w ill do under
■ I fit” Captain Neman says that they
1 will w ii tint! by a good score, but other
■ top, h . are running’ most anyway
MEN’S MEETINGS AT Y. M. C. A.
Thi mens mertings at the Y-ung
Men s Christian a-so. iation are to be
■ snmed The fit st will »e held next
1 <ai’ da y al’ t i noct, at 3 n < lot k. when
’ 11. i Uh K Smith speak* "it
i I'faiiiing sot I,n'e. ' All mi n a.e ,rt
• ,t- • to atiend.
I'
“Wood and Wagner Deserve
Credit for Victory”-Carrigan
Bv Bill Carrigan.
(Red Sox Great Catcher.)
Boston, mass., oct. 12.—Yes- \
terday our boys looked more
like their old selves than at
gny 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. x
Had Wagner failed, i the hits
would have gone for singles and
very lucky ones at that.
Yerkes 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?
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 easual
. ties
• ♦ *
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 tome 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
fust 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, has figured it out that no big hit
ting was: reasonably to be expected from
either Igirry Doyle or Tris Speaker. He
alleges that, while these men did fine
I _____—
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
v i bal agreement between the purchas
er and the management that tickets
would not be resold, but a- this has
not prevented speculators from getting
possession of a considerable number,
the new policy has been adopted.
AUSTRALIAN TRIP NOW
INTERESTS J. JOHNSON
CHl< AGO, (id 12. Following bis i
int* nation that he might tight - m '
Fly nn again. Jack Johnson today is
onsioei itig the offer of Hugh M. Iri
sh sot two fights in Australia
W C J Ke’ly. Hugh Mclntoshs rep
resentative. will lin’d a conference late I
, the day and a dei irfion i il : » re#en-
J avlt Curley Flynn'# manager, has I
.'tr. , Johnson noil t" light Flinn
| n I •;< ’t - o hi wi'i stag. • tight I't
Arm I. .i on . pire.ntag bc> ,la< ii
| s on-id. ing .o ’ opting bo'.’i th, Fh nn
J . 4 o«t ralian offel
. ■
that we are all 1 claimed befofe
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 goes
beyond Monday, which I doubt, Jo?
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 weattier 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 Matquard—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 to 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.
♦ * •
TJte Highlanders have promised Ganzel
a couple of players at the first of the
next season, but Farrell doesn't give the
Rochester mogul much information as to
who they will be.
• • •
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 \et ’’cached 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
• ♦ *
Nobodx who saw Yerkes play during
his Southern league days ever expected
he was slated to prove the hero of a
world's series gamp
Then, on the other hand, nobody to
see George Rohe bat these days in a
Southern league would Cver 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 rhe
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
Re.N and Chicago Cubs will not down,
and information today is that a big
trade is soon to be pullt 1 off. It Is gaid
that Johnny Evers or Flank Chance Is
concerned in the deal Should either
one come here hi will be made maha
ger.
Nothing can be learned officially, for
President Herrmann and other club of
ficials are in New York. However,
s < man • -■ to the affairs of
the club who declares that the e will be
something doing immediately after the
big play-off
President Herrmann denied today in
Neiv York that he s aft. r Frank
Chance to manage bA. .ub He also
denied that he had leleased Hank
O'Dav. as a local paper stated this
morning
Chance, it i« said, has slate.l that he
> i ' . • hold b. • ■ A: tirst
.; ii .i ilmugbt thm Miller Huggins had
tin Insi'i. track
P < ■•'iib nt Mui thy and Manage
Chan ined to di cuss th. *r< j...n
last night.
WAGNEfI-YEHKES
WINNERS DFTHE
FOURTH GM
By John “Chief” Mevers.
(Catcher of the Giant Club.;
Boston, mass., oct. 12. -w„ 0(
beat us yesterday. I predict
ed that he would not be abl<
to come bank 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. lA 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 eurvt
ball in pinches, and by his very boni
ness ’'crossed” the Giant batters foi
several innings.
I think that every one who saw the
game Friday will agree with me that
toward the end we were hitting hiir
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
feame 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 Won 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 war
the tying run. That was in the sev
enth, when McCormick came over with
a pinch The ball shot righ
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 ktiew
he didn’t have a chance for the baiter
so lie stalled a bit in retrieving thba
Which he rolled away from him. Pletch
er had started with the rap. He hat
rounded third when Yerkes rec<’
and looked certain of scoring. 1 ' K *
however, threw perfectly and n ■
man.
NOTED LECTURER CONIES
TO ATLANTA TOMORROW
Dr. Karl Jansen, the famous -
lecturer and will a; ■
the Jewish Educational alliance "" 11 '
tober 13 at 8 o’clock in a numb' ’
impersonations He also will
a lecture. David Love, the viol
« ill appear on the program.
Mr. Jansen for ten years hi‘ I
noted for his ability as an eM'” I
and his story, "Thelma Homt I
nificent. I
TOM KILBANE OUTCLAS f • I
WINNIPEG. MANITOBA 'F. ‘ I
’ i’ai key Mi Farliind merely >' I
Tommy Kilim n*’, of Clio> I
seven rounds when the ref'ie' I
the «o*i'» I
