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LPITLP W. S FARNSWORTH
ATHENS REPORTS
ARE DISTINCTLY
BEARISH i
Athens. ga.. oet is—The
Georgia football men have
buckled down in the most
deadly earnest to the task of get
ting ready foi Vanderbilt and the
big game in Atlanta Saturday.
The game with Citadel Saturday,
though a walk-over for the Geot ■
gia team, revealed several defects
that must be remedied before the
Vanderbilt game.
The most important of these is a
lack of snap and dash that is so
essential to every winning team.
Georgia was slow in getting plays
under way. and the showing of the
team, while a great improvement
over that of the previous Saturday,
wbs not sufficient to cause any
great amount of rejoicing among
tht supporters and students
Georgia’s defense has been and
still is the main trouble, and unless
there is great improvement shown
in this department by Saturday
there will be nothing to the con
test but Vanderbilt.
Cunningham will most likely get
busy this week and bolster up his
defense with some new formations
Local supporters realize that to
stop the onslaughts of the Commo
dore back field requires some won
derful defensive tactics, as the
prowess of Hardage and Collins is
by no means underestimated.
Hardage. naturally. Is most fear
ed .of all.
Georgia Needs Punter.
Another thing that is bothering
the coaches is the absence of a
good, reliable punter who can be
depmded upon to boot the hall out
of danger. None of the varsity men
has shown anything noticeable In
the kicking line thus far, although
Cunningham has had several men
working at it since the beginning of
the season.
The one redeeming feature oi the
game Saturday was the splendid
tackling shown by the secondary
defense lip to the present time the
men have demonstrated little abil
ity to down the runner when once
by'the line of scrimmage, and their
efforts along this particular line
have been exceedingly feeble.
Ixklbl supporters are looking for
ward with great interest to the
hi k field duel between McWhorter,
Georgia’s best bet, and Hardage,
the Commodore captain.
'‘Glass of Jelly Won Game for i
Me/Is Marquardt Wild Claim
B} Rube Warquard.
Boston, mass.. Oot 15,—A jar
of jelly won for me. Thai may
sound funny, but it’s the truth
just the same*. When I went down
to breakfast yesterday morning
there was a pa« kage waiting for
me. It was from iny 89-year-old
grandmother n ('leveland I had
received a lettei from her Sunday,
and she told me she mailed me a
jar of apple Jelly.
I couldn’t open the package fast
enough
As soon a* I tipped off the cover.
I stuck a spoon deep into the jar.
and as 1 swallowed that sweet
mouthful 1 said to myself, "Rube,
old boy. this jelly will be your mas
cot today "
And it sure was
Without that jelly I don’t be
liev I would have won my game,
the game tliat has put us back in
the battle and has left a smooth
path to the world’s championship.
Y< s. the jelly won that game
But 1 almost lost confidence In it
when for five innings I wasn’t able
to gi t a blooming thing on the ball
1 tried mv curve and it wouldn’t
curve
1 tried my fast ball and It
wouldn't hop
The Rube Had To Work.
”1 must mix ’em up.” 1 said to
myself, and for five innings- I never
worked harder.
I us*<i the old think-tank and
got away with it because 1 out
guess! | the Boston batters
As i was sitting on tin bench
during our turn at bat in the last
of the fifth inning. 1 thought of that
jar of jelly.
(>h if I could have had another
spoonful of it Was- this token
from my gmndniothei going to
In ..doo me ’ I asked my s«df the
■lie st.on over and oter again
■ 1 w ent out to tile t»s»x tn the
■ixtli I mad*- up my mind that I
wa* going to get something on
ttw a foi my owi saki for my
M •' sake McGraw
HF l of all lor 'i grund
I'" k*
And i e jelly d Idii I fall me.
I 1 mid ptet m dear old grand
mot bar Hi t:i» kitclttm ogt tn f’ts-vw
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land, preparing the delicious mor- 1
sei. and I know lliat her every move
in making carried a wish of luck
for me.
The first ball 1 pitched in the
sixth was a fast one.. It was to
Lewis, and he swung on it after It
had found its way into Chief Mey
ers' big mitt. Then it was a curve,
and it never broke better. The
third ball was another fast one.
and Lewis hit under it. raising a
foul that the chief olutched. Then
Gardner fanned on four pitched
balls, while 1 struck out the mighty
Stahl with three balls
The Jelly "Delivers.”
The jelly had made good in the
pinch.
From that inning I knew that
Boston would never get another
man across the plate.
J had everything In the world.
No longer was I an ”$11,006 lem
on.” The fans—-those that only
two years ago were urging, yes,
pleading with McGraw that I be
released, were with me
They hud forgotten the past, and
I forgave them
But before I go any furthei 1
want to give the same credit to
my team mates that I did after I
won my first game. I only deserve
one-ninth of the praise.
Where would 1 have been had not
Snodgrass, the man who lias been
so unjustly panned for his unfor
tunate show ing in this series, made
that marvelous running catch of
Wagner's vicious welt in the fourth
inning?
And what If Fletcher and Doyle
and Meyers anil Herzog and all the
other boys had not been with tne
Ii wasn’t a one-man victory, and
I don't claim one whit more than
Is coming to me
Marquard's Arm Was Bad
My arm was not ut Its best yes
lerduy The ligament in the fore
at in kept Jumping out of place dur
ing the tirst five innings But tlai
whole arm could have come off l» -
fore I would hai ■• quit
If I never pitch' d anothei aiuiii.
I was going tn win this one
In the fifth tin old salary eimiei
pained me like i Jumping tooth
ache. As I sa .in 'he flench ill the
iset of tin liftl I wrapt-ed the arm
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1912.
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• Attendance 30,622: :
• Receipts $66,654 :
• •
• NEW YORK. Oct. 15—The at- •
• tendance and receipts at yester- •
• day’s game follow: •
• Total paid attendance. .. 30,622 •
• Total receipts $66,654.00 •
• Nat. commission's share. 6.665.40 •
• Each dub's share 29,994.30 •
• The attendance and receipts of •
• rhe present series now surpass by •
• several thousand the figures hung •
• up in former world’s series. •
• The attendance and receipts at •
• the world's series In 1911 between •
• the Giants and the Athletics were •
• the new records in this respect. •
• A comparison is given herewith •
• Last year the series ran but six • 1
• games, but It surpassed records of • |
• seven-game series of previous » ,
• years The six games of last year o
• are compared here w ith this year’s. •
• Thus year the paid attendance •
• has been 202.309, against 179,851 •
• In 1911. •
• The total receipts tins year are •
• $408,137. against $342,164.50 in 1911 •
• The players will divide $147,- •
• 571.70 this year, against $127,910.61 •
• In 1911. •
• The club owners received SIBO.- •
• 217.44 in 1911 This year they have •
• received to date $215,251.30 •
• The national commission re- <*
• ceived $34,036.45. This year they •
• have received $40,314. •
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with adhesive tape. This proved 1
good dope, for it held the ligament
In place and it gave me little trou
ble thereafter
Now. as to that title.
It's ours Just as sure as my name
is M irquard.
Tesieau will surely win his game
today and that will put us on even
terms with the Red Sox
And Matty is a I to 10 shot tn
the deciding game, if Ids arm is
right
Hut if the big fellow, gamest and
gt cutest of ail pitchers, feels that
his arm the arm that has won so
many victories for New York Isn’t
on edge. 1 w il[ jump into the
breach. 1 am willing to pitch
every game, if necessary—not for
the extra eleven or twelve hundred
dollars that 1 will get If the Giants
win the title, but for McGraw and
his great players, every om- <>f them
a prince
CHAS. GLIDDEN STARTS
ON BARNSTORMING TRIP
i'i:Tiii>rr, muti . Oct 1* The Lal
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<’harle* I Ghihft l I the • |. d !
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“Slow Grounds Gave
Victory to Giants/*
Says Bill Carrigan
Red Sox Infielders Could Not
Handle Slow Bounding Hits,
and Luck Against Them.
By Bill Carrigan.
BOSTON. Oct. 15. —We will win to
day with Joe Wood in the box
and wind up the series.
We will probably be opposed by Jeff
Tesreau. It will be a great strain on
the Giant pitcher, and I do not believe
he will be able to get away with it. We
have already beaten him twice.
We lost out in the first inning yes
terday. When O’Brien was relieved
after that disastrous first inning he de
clared hfs spitball was working fine and I
he never had more stuff on the ball.
The breaks were all against him; that’s I
all.
The grounds yesterday were soft and
slow, much softer than appeared to be
the case from the grandstand. In that
disastrous first inning and in two or
three cases later two or three puny hits
to Wagner and Yerkes w-ould have
been easy outs on a fast diamond. The
soft ground slowed the hits up and the
runners were able to reach first before
our fielders could get the ball there.
Here's Carrigan's Alibi.
The very first hit made by McGraw’s
men was an example. The ball rolled
so slowly from the bat of Larry Doyle
that Yerkes was not able to get to it in
time to beat out the New York captain
with his throw. Snodgrass struck out,
making two out, Devore having been
thrown out by Wagner Then Merkle
came to bat. He was only able to
dribble a slow one toward Wagner,
lleinle raced up quickly and fielded the
ball perfectly, but the ball had stopped
by the time he got to it and his throw
was too kite.
Both Yerkes play and that by Wag
ner were made all right, and the deci
sions were very close, hut the slow
grounds acted to New York’s advan
tagi
Then tin ■li.mis beg.in to connect
with (t'Bi ieii’s delivery. Five New
Yorkers scored, ami an uphill tight was
In front of uh.
Everything went wrong foi us tn this
first inning O'Brien's balk scored thi
hist 1111 .uni tite Giants' hit*, aided by
'in slow ground, did th' rest
M»rqu«rd Pitched Grand Game.
IL xiarted right In on Murquard is
soon a* «e came to bat iti the second.
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• Herzog Still Leading :
• Batters: Murray 2d :
• Clyde Engle, by dint of making e
• one hit yesterday out of two •
• times at bat, leads the world’s se- •
• ries hitters. The real leader, how- •
• ever, continues to be Herzog, with e
• Murray a useful second. •
e Here are the figures, only the •
• players who have made one hit or •
• more being shown: •
• Players. G. AB. R. H. P.C. •
• Engle 6 2 0 1 .500 •
• Herzog .... 6 21 4 9 .429 •
• Murray 6 22 4 8 .364 •
• Hooper 6 23 3 8 .348 •
• Meyers 6 21 17 .333 •
• McCormick ... 4 3 0 1 .333 •
• Yerkes 6 24 2 7 .292 •
• Wood 2 71 2 .286 •
• Speaker .... 6 22 3 6 .273 •
• Stahl 6 23 2 6 .261 •
• Merkle 6 23 4 6 .261 •
• Tesreau 2 4 0 1 .250 •
• Devore .... 3 17 1 4 .235 •
• Cadv 5 14 0 3 .214 •
• Doyle 6 24 2 5 .208 •
i • Snodgrass ... 6 24 1 4 .167 •
• Lewis .... 6 24 3 4 .167 •
• Fletcher .... 6 20 0 3 .150 •
• Gardner .... 6 21 3 3 .143 •
• Wagner ... 6 22 1 3 .136 •
• Mathewson. . . 2 8 0 1 .125 •
• The Giants lead In team bat- •
• ting. Here are the figures: •
• Teams. G. AB. R. H. P.C. •
• New York ... 6 197 18 49 .249 •
• Boston. . . .6 202 18 44 .218 •
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CUBS WIN THIRD IN ROW
AND HAVE SOX ON RUN
CHICAGO. Oct. 15. —The Chicago Na
tionals burled the White Sox under an
8 to 1 score yesterday, winning the third
straight game of the series to decide the
baseball championship of Chicago. Vic
tory for the Cubs today will end the se
ries.
Cicotte attempted to stop the Cubs
w inning streak but was relieved by Lange
after five runs had been scored off him
in two innings. Lange held Ids oppo
nents in cheek until the ninth, when Safer
pounded out his second triple, scoring two
more runs.
The American leaguers' lone tally was
made in the sixth, when Bodie drove the
ball deep into center field for three bases
and scored on Johnson’s single Cheney
pitched in rare form He held the
Americans to eight hits and kept them
well scattered
.mil for two innings wo had him guess
ing. We scored two runs. That was
a good start and It looked very ninth
.is though we would make some more in
the third We war. hitting Miniu.tr:.
but hitting the ball too high
Maiquaid did not appear tn have as
itiiieh is he did the firm tim< he op-
POM<I IIS, but, with the <'Xcepllot, of
tin second timing, he pitched a gland
game of bail. His support was gilt
edgtsf
“Sox Overanxious Yesterday;
Stahl Pulls Bone"—B. Smith
By Billy Smith.
BOSTON, MASS., net. 15.—Bos
ton is considerably cut up
this njorning. Through the
cultured old burg there is a de
cided feeling of disquietude and un
rest.
Tile unexpected delay in haling
the Red Sox champions is meet
ing with much disfavor around
these parts.
That little slip ’twixt tin up and
the lip that gave the Giants one
crack at the championship broke
up a Red Sox celebration th.it was
to have torn up Broadway last
night.
All arrangements had been per
fected, but by virtue of a healthy
application of Giant wallops,
Broadway remains intact. The
athletes of both clubs are still on
the water wagon and here we are
ready for a resumption of warfare
in the Hub.
Tersely and accurately, that is
why the Bostonese are peeved.
This morning Joe Wood faces
the greatest responsibility that
was ever heaped upon the shoulders
of an athlete. He must pitch the
Red Sox to a championship this
afternoon or the Boston team is
likely to be utterly routed.
So much has been said of Wood,
so much has been done by Wood
and so much is expected of him by
every living man, woman and child
in New England that if he should
fail it will be a blow from which it
is believed the American league
champions can not recover,
Giants Determined to Win,
The Giants have but one thought
ahead of them.
They must win this afternoon’s
game.
They are not figuring on the fu
ture assignment of pitchers or on
what the Red Sox may do.
Their single purpose is to beat
Joe Wood and put themselves in
the running. If that can be brought
about, thejkhave no fear of the fu
ture.
The deciding game or games, as
the case might be. can take care of
themselves.
Though McGraw declines to make
a positive announcement in ad
vance, I am certain that he will for
the third time pin his faith in Big
Jeff Tesreau, the bear-hunting spit
bailer, who has pitched great ball
on every start, but who. unfortu
nately, was pitted both tin.es
against Wood.
The Giants believe firmly that
they can beat Wood this time.
This is not an expression of what
is knc.vvn to the baseball tri o ■ as
"club house pep.” They really be
lieve it. Their belief is not based
upon mere braggadocio to keep up
their courage, but on the principle
that no pitcher within a week’s
time cam pitch three games and
win. Mathewson did it back in
1905, when he shut out the Phila
delphia Athletics three times in
succession, but Wood hasn’t the
strong physical build of Mathew
son.
If Wood should come through
and win. he will have performed
one of the most remarkable feats
of modern baseball.
Tough Job For Red Sox.
The battle of today will be a se
verer test for the Red Sox than for
the Giants. Seeing victory almost
in their grasp and feeling the nerv
ousness of 30.000 people behind
them, the Sox will have no lawn
party on their hands. They’ve
got to stand the gaff and come
clean to annex the championship.
At the same time the Giants are
battling more In desperation, and
if they lose, they fee) that the
Boston fans will take it as a mat
ter of course. They have nothing
to worry about and will go In and
fight their regular game.
The fans of Boston now believe
that Manager Stahl made a seri
ous error when he sent "Buck”
O’Brien against the Giants yester
day and not Wood. That was the
game on which to make the big
plunge, and 1 believe hp should
have shot Wood through for "the
works.”
As a result. Stahl has crippled
his pitching staff so that every
thing must be staked on Wood to
day. If he loses. Collins will not
be able to go In tomorrow, and It
is unlikely that O’Brien will he
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No truth is more forcibly’ manifested in physical life than the 0.1
saying “like begets like; ” for just as the offspring of healthy ancestry ;irs
blessed with pure, rich blood insuring good health, so the children of blood*
tainted parentage inherit a polluted circulation which fosters a chain of
scrofulous troubles. The usual sign of a scrofulous inheritance are swollen
glands about the neck, weak eyes, pale, waxy complexions, sores and ulcers
and general poor health. These symptoms are most often manifest d tn
early life, though sometimes maturity is rt, ‘
before the trouble breaks out. Treatment
be commence! at the fust indication of Scrofn.a i n
it may get beyond control if allowed to run n n
if (J® 6 * d®* \ cheeked, S. SS. is the very best treatment
I I j Scrofula. It renovates the circulation and drives
1 i ” ill all scrofulous matter and deposits. S. S. .•
goes to the bottom of the trouble and removes m
* 7£1 Cause and cuics the disease. Then it suppl' l \'"
weak, blood with healthful properties. S S >s '•
made ent'rely of roots, herbs and barks, and ' J '
absolutely safe remedy for young oi old. Book on the blood and W' 11
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started again. Bedient may be in
•shape to go in. but that young fel
low is a curve ball pitcher, and it
takes several days to get him
right, according to the players of
the American league who are along
as special correspondents ana
hangers-on.
If the Giants should be so fortu
nate as to win this afternoon, they
will be in the best strategic posi
tion for the big- play-off.
McGraw would be in a position
where he can use either Marquard
qr Mathewson. The Big Train, as
Matty is known to his teammates,
■will be just right tomorrow, as he
will have had four days of rest.
If 1 were manager of the Giants
and it came to one game that was
to decide the championship, 1
would rather see Mathewson pitch
than any man in the world. Those
are the moments in which he is su
preme.
Can’t Figure O’Brien’s "Biow.”
The Boston fans were consider
ably shocked at the terrible lashing
handed "Buck” O'Brien yesterday
and they are still wondering what
the Giants did to wreak such havoc
in such a short period of time. The
turning point in that game was
when O’Brien made a palpable balk
to first base and allowed Larry
Doyle to walk home with a run.
It is almost inconceivable that a
pitcher who has been pitching
baseball for a number of years
could make such a mistake as to
start a throw to first base and
then stop dead in his tracks. It
showed one thing to McGraw, how
ever, and he lost no time in strik
ing while the iron was hot. Imme
diately after O’Brien made the balk
there was great activity among the
Giants. McGraw and Coach Robi
son were running here and there
and the players were tossing up
bats and getting . ready for a
slaughter.
"Don’t fool around with him
now,” said McGraw. "Hit at any
thing that comes up.”
McGraw had seen in an instant
that the Red Sox were rattled anti
that O'Brien was more upset than
any of them. Their calm, hard
working spirit of previous days
had gone and in its stead was a
nervous anxiety over winning the
game that was to settle the world’s
championship.
By hitting at the first ball or at
any one that came near the plate
the Giants got to O’Brien before he
could settle down after that balk.
Stahl Makes Poor Move.
Bang! Bang! Bang! The hits be
began popping around the field an!
when the smoke had blown away
the Giants had five runs and tie
game.
Right then and there Jake Stahl
did a most foolish thing.
He took O’Brien out of a game,
that hopelessly lost and sub
stituted Ray Collins, a pitcher on
whom he was depending for an im
portant fight. Colilns pitched in
masterful form, but it was like
shooting at the stars.
The only result of this move was
the ruining of two pitchers on a
hopeless defeat and putting himself
in an awful position if anything
should happen to Wood, the one
great star, today.
Rube Marquard caught the spirit
of victory from his team mates anti
pitched a beautiful game. He was
a little unsteady in the third and
fourth innings, but after that he
straightened out and the Sox were
helpless.
Rube declares *that during the
second inning he felt that a liga
ment in his arm was working out
of place and that it affected his
control. Between the fourth and
fifth innings he went to the bencli,
where Ed Mackall, the train
bound the pitching’ wing with ad
hesive tape so as to hold the liga
ment in place. After that Rube s
control was perfect and he per*
formed the rather rematkable teai
of making nineteen batters pop
easy flies.
Engle Proved Surprise
The one man who fooled Mar*
quard and who is responsible f®’’
the only runs made by the Sox is
Clyde Engle, the utility infielder,
who batted in plaxift of O'Brien m
the second. There were two on
bases when Engle came to the bati
and he sent them both home with a
two-bagger that bumped into the
left-field fence.