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8 GKWIO ®OIS OEHD * fflffll? 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 Red Sox Spilled the Beans By Bud Fisher rj|g| fTiLovcK j . EAT NEW V€5T 11 Ij / • Si 1 \ too. J ; x?, '/fit ) . v j iiJaG Ls I7 WLJe < 1L Z 'JwSIWE" ■■isi ftrNT- Gflgi I , w \b ' ' 111 Wf. 1 1 * H] |j J ;fUß— ' It . / HBL» z|- I r '-f, z/ / 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. •••••••••••••••••••••••••a • 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. • •••••••*•••••••••••••••••« 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 i«» tbe-Gulf Mut>Mn«ibOr> t«<ur, • b* <’harle* I Ghihft l I the • |. d ! rrliMbllhy tmii ug- !uj« i uft iw.. u»ek “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. eeoeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee • e • 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 • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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 I L J 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 ttdVK ‘ : ,rtv TH£ SHWT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA- 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.