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Ty Cobb Is the Greatest Batter of Baseball History
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Sam Crane Says Georgia Peach Leads Them All
By Sam Crane.
NEW YORK. Nov. 14.-There
is little more that ciitl be
snriil in praise of Ty Cobb
than has already been written, but
his batting average of .11b per cent
that he made the past season, to
gether with his average of .420 per
ct nt h< accomplished last season,
places him In a’ class bj himself as
a batsman.
During the season of 1912 he
age in came out ahead of those
great hatters of tin \merieait
league- Joe Jackson Tris Speaker
anti Napoleon Lajoi, . To perform
that feat is high honor enough, but,
together with that record, be has
• the better one of having led tile
league for six cons, eullve seasons
and bids fair to do the same for
. another half dozen tear: to . T*ine.
t provided the iktroit club < m af
ford to keep him that long, with
the raises in salart that be will de
mand and by all right is entitled to
* get.
Cobb’s record of .420 last season
was the greatest batting that ant
player ever succeeded in aceotn- 1
plishing. Other players have e\-
| celled those figures in percentage,
as follows:
Duffy. .435: Turner. .42::. in is?I:
Burch, .423: Burkett, .23, in 1395.
and JaiJoie. .422. in 1801. but all
those big averages were made be
. fore the present foul strike rule
was adopted, and when batters like
Burkett and Ddffy could “kill the
good ones" with ridiculous rat* 1 I>>
intentionally fouling off the ball,
and even uYider those favorable
conditions they did follow up their
big averages for six years hand
running
ATLANTA LOSES WEISER
TO DALLAS. TEXAS. CLUB
The Atlanta club has lost its claim
on Wxiser, the star player of the Char
lotte. N. C., dub. He was sold to At
lanta and the money paid. But now it
appears that the Dallas, Texas, club
sold Osteen to Charlotte last spring,
witli the underfunding that they were
to have first pick of the team. They
have claimed Weiser and theii claim
has been, upheld by the national com
mission.
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< ,’obb came right hack the past
season with the surprisingly good
percentage of .410. No such con
sistency of batting has ever been
known, although "I'np" Anson, Dan
i’routiier.M ami also Hans Wagner
have Ifud big consecutive batting
periods.
When one stops to think what a
410 butting .nerage means, then it
can lie appreciated. 'Chat record
tolls tha; Cobb, in a little over
every other time at bat. made a
base hit, and what does that mean
to tlto club and team having such
a wonder on its line-up?
Unfortunately, the Tigers' pitch
ing staff went all to pieces the past
season, and y’obb's bludgeon, as
nifty us it was. could not pull his
team out of the i ut.
But s'-e what a valuable plater
<'obb would be. to the Giants. a
team that is always for year after
y, ar fighting for the leading posi
tion. Cobb's bat and hitting would
Im invaluable and would virtually
assure the tliants the pennant s=< ti
son after season.
Giants Have Lacked Real Star.
The Giants have never been for
tunate nough to secure a eraeker
jaek outfielder of Hie Cobb, Speak
er or Jackson slugging propensity.
McGraw could never get his hooks
on a player like any of that big
trio, who can and do win game
after game with the wallop.
No players have come to MeGmw
ready mauc. H> has been obliged
to develop his own team ami play
ers, and us a usual thing has been
handicapped by a mediocre hitting
outfield. A Cobb in the Giants'
outer garden and at bat would have
won the world's series both this
season and last.
WENDELL AND BRICKLEY
TO PLAY ON SATURDAY
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.. Nov. 14. Sup
porters of the Crimson team are jubi
lant today over the news that Captain
Wendell will be able to get into the
Dartmouth game Saturday and that the
strained tendons In Brickley’s kicking
leg will not keep him out of the fray.
The team will be put through the
scrimmage work today, but only light
practice tomorrow.
i’HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1912.
There is nothing in baseball bet
ter than the punch, ami with a
clean-up slugger like Cobb, who
can be depended on almost ever.v
other time at bal, the Giants would
have been too strong, to tell the
truth.
It is posslblj a good thing for
the game that the Cobbs, Speakers
and Jacksons ate scattered around
where their slugging can be scat*
terlngly utilized, still 1 wouldn't
mind it' the Giants had Tyrus just
the same.
I want to see them beat out Mur
phy again, and the Giants’ out
field needs straightening, t »nc can't
get away from that.
Brief Sketch of Coach Heisman's Fleet Tech Gridiron Warriors
YELLOW JACKETS COMPOSED OF TOl.Mi ATHLETES
B\ J. S. Moore, Jr.
IT has been said that a team
needs “young blood" to keep it
going, if that is the case, the
Yellow Jackets should go some in
their game against the Red and
Black. This is perhaps the young
est team Tech has ever turned out
and might be properly dubbed the
"Hoy Techites,'' not in playing abil
ity and grit, but in age and weight.
Following is a brief sketch of
each mUn since he enterd the ath
letic field, and gives the fans an
insight iitto what the "nucleus”
really was and what tho “big team”
is composed of:
Albert Loeb played with the Boys
High school during his three years
there and tnen came direct to Tech,
playing scrub ball for three years
and making his letter in his fourth
year. This is Ids second yen ol
the varsity and he is a regular
demon when it comes to grit and a
desire for work. He weighs 155
pounds, is 21 years of age and will
graduate this year.
Colley a Great Athlete.
Colley, at right tackle, is an ath
lete in every sense of the word.
He has scrubbed for three years
and will make his first letter this
year. He takes the best care of
himself of any man on the team.
He never smokes or drinks and
practically keeps training the year
round. He played *hree years at
Georgia Military academy, weighs
168 and leaves this year.
Ed Means is another Boys High
school performer, having played
with them for three years, scrubbed
two years and made his letter the
last year. He weighs 172. plays a
guard and is one of the best lines
men Tech has had recently. He
has two years more of football if
he returns next year, which is very
doubtful.
Agahi. we have a local product
in “Fax" Montague, who is playing
a guard and ."•bowing up in great
style. He prepped at tho Roys
High school for three years and
has made tiie Yellow Jackets a good
all-round man. He is captain of
the baseball team, is a good track
man. besides being a corking foot
ball player. He is playing a guard
to the entire satisfaction of all
concerned. However, he is very
light, weighing only 155. and this
is his first year on the team.
Captain Leuhrman. has not got a
"prep” school record to light his
way. but learned the game at Tech,
playing in the class series. Coach
Heisman saw him play and real
ised that ho was a good man. He
is not flashy, but steady, deer
headed and a hard tackler and
charger However, he. like the oth
ers. is far short in the weight de
partment. as ho only tips the scales
at 170 This is his third year on
the team and he will graduate this
spr'ng
\\ * now come to a man w. ... ts In
had the weight, would be a player
: HERE ARE RESULTS :
: OF PAST BATTLES J
Z BETWEEN RIVALS J
• _—.——— •
® 1893 —Tech 26, Georgia 5. •
• 1894—Tech 22, Georgia 0. •
• 1895—N0 game. •
• 1896—N0 game. •
• 1897 —Georgia 28. Tech 0. •
• 1898—Georgia 15, Tech 0. •
• IS99—Georgia 20, Tech 0. •
• 1900—Georgia 12, Tech 0. •
• 1901—No game. •
• 1902 —Georgia 0, Tech 0. •
• 190!; —Georgia 38, Tech 0. •
• I.9o4—Tech 23, Georgia 6. •
• 1905—Tech 46, Georgia 0. •
• 1906—Tech 17. Georgia 0. •
• 1907 —Tech 10. Georgia 6. •
• 1908—No game. •
• 1909 —Tech 12, Georgia 6. •
• 1910—Georgia 11, Tech 6. •
• 1912—Georgia 5, Tech 0. . •
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of the “big league” variety, and
this is Hutton, who plays an end.
Before entering Tech he played
football for seven or eight years
with the Savananh High school
and was captain for two seasons.
He was a star on the scrubs and
came near making his letter last
year, but this Is his firsP year as a
regular. He is a sure tackler,
heady and knowing the game is
second nature with him. He is a
sophomore and by' next year
should be able to play in the back
fie|d, where he is accustomed to
playing, but again—weight 148.
The only new man out of an en
tering class of over 200 who could
make the team was "Scrappy”
Moore, the little 148-pound kid wito
plays the right end and for whom
there seems such a bright future.
He is a natural born athlete, but
has had quite a good deal of ex- •
perience, having played for four
years on the Little Rock High
school team, where he was a star
of the "Evening" varsity. Hefore
he leaves Tech he should make the
all-Southern. and that is getting to
be harder and harder to make every
season.
Rely on McDonald’s Punts.
The man we now speak
of is another one of those Boys
High school players, having played
with them for two years and
scrubbed for one year, and is now
playing such a pretty game at
quarter. This is McDonald, who is
there with the goods all the time,
and whose punting is expected to
be a feature of Saturday's fray.
This man is something else besi'des
a kicker. He runs well with th<B
ball and is a regular demon ‘on
catching forward passes from both
sides. He weighs 150 and has three
more years at Tech, all of which he
can play in.
Homer (Took is t <: only real old
man in the back field, and he is
being depended upon to do a ma
jority of the woik that will keep
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Batsmen Sure Do Not Relish Fast Ball Pitching
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Demand of All Managers Is for “Smoke Artists”
By R. W. Larduer.
WHENEVER you hear a ball
player remark that he likes
to hit against fast pitching,
or that he can hit it better than
anything else, or that his team is
strong against it, put him down in
y our book as temporarily deranged
or careless with the truth.
For w hen he speaks of speed, it
is taken for granted that he means
the fastest sort, and not the best
hitter in the world can accomplish
as much against it as against a
modified degree. It stands to rea
son that ft is the more difficult to
gauge a delivery the faster it is
Georgia guessing. Homer made his
letter the first year that Georgia,
defeated Tech and has never played
on a team that has put the Red
and Black on the shelf. He will
graduate this spring and he would
hate to leave school after having
played oq the team three years
without beating Georgia once. He
played a little football at the high
school in his home town, Coving
ton, but received most of his train
ing while a scrub. He weighs 160
and will go into the game with one
of those unexplainable “get there
or burst” feelings.
Fielder Has Bright Future.
Fielder, the <'edartown High
school lad. will play one of the half
back places and will be there with
colors flying. He is especially light,
but is heady and exceedingly fast,
with a fair use of the stiff arm.
He has scrubbed one year and will
make his letter for the first time
this season. With two years more
to play in, he has prospects of a
bright future and in the Saturday's
affair he will be heard from. His
weight, 146. keeps him froiji belhg
a line plunger, but he can skirt the
ends and is a good defensive man.
Now, last, but not least by a
long shot, we have Thomasson, the
159-pound fullback, who, if he
weighed twenty pounds more,
would be a bearcat. He is the
man who will do the line plunging
for the Jackets, and he can be de
pended upon to put every ounce of
that 159 pounds into every play he
gets in. He learned to play ball
under <'oach Heisman, scrubbing
for three years, making his letter
last year. Ho will graduate this
spring.
SMITH IS COMING SOON
TO TAKE OVER HIS JOB
Bill Smith is expected in Atlanta the
latter part of the week. He will leave
the Nortit as soon as the National as
sociation meeting is over, and will come
straight to Atlanta.
Bill is an awful football bug, and it
is figured that he w ill arrange his plans
to be here for the Tech-Georgitt game
Saturday. »
pitched. If a pitcher were to hurl
nothing but his speediest straight
ball all through the game, the
chances are he would be pounded
pretty hard before the finish, for
the batters would grow accus
tomed to it and time their swings
to meet it. But think how much
harder a walloping a pitcher would
take if he sent up nothing but
straight slow' ones.
Before the world's series Christy
Mathewson wrote that the Giants
would probably solve Wood because
they could hit speed. Joe gave
them plenty of it in the first game,
and they scored three runs, but
lost the battle. They didn't see
Smoky Joe at his fastest then, and
were led to believe that he had
been overrated and that they would
surelf get him next time out.
Woody crossed them by free use
of his curve ball in his second start,
on a dark day, too. They were
looking for fast straight ones, and
they didn't get many of them. But
they didn't demonstrate at any
stage of the series that they could
do anything with real speed. Hugh
Bedient handed them little else,
and their batting average against
him was nothing to boast of.
Great Speed in Demand.
With due respect to the value of
a curve, a spitball, i slow one or a
knuckle ball, present day managers
are in the market for pitchers with
great speed. A man who can throw
a ball over the plate w till lightning
rapidity can be taught to mix up
something else with his smoke, but
a man without smoke can’t have it
wished on him.
I’d Walsh would hardlj- have at
tained his present status without
the spitball, but minus his speed
the spitter wouldn’t be worth a
wooden nickel, while his great
speed alone might be worth some
thing. even if he didn’t have the
spitball perfected. Some day next
season Ed intends to pitch a whole
game of fast ones, merely bluffing
at moistening the ball. His mates
believes he will score a shutout,
for the batters will be constantly
looking for a change. But if he
should use his spitball exclusively
through nine innings, he would
scarcely fool anybody.
Walter Johnson was better than
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ever this year for twb reasons; be
cause he had better backing and
because Griffith taught him how to
pitch. But Griff couldn’t have given
him speed if he had lacked it, and,
after all, Johnson's speed is what
makes him one of the most feared
pitchers in baseball.
Fred Merkle, who has not been
smiled on by fate very often, was
unfortunate enough to be up in the
pinch in an inning when Wood
showed his, best speed of the re
cent series. He was out on strikes,
having swung at every one.
Merkle Didn’t See a Ball.
“What was the matter?” asked
McGraw on the bench.
“Not a thing." replied Fred. "If
I got that kind of pitching all the
time I wouldn’t hit .026. I didn't
see a single ball he pitched, and
just judged he was pitching by I
watching his arm come around.”
If Wood had happened to be wild
and had sent one at Merkle's bean,
the latter wouldn’t have had a
chance to get out of the way. The
fear of being wounded is another
thing that makes the batter dislike
fast pitching, no matter how often
he may swear he prefers it to slow.
The man with a comparatively
small amount of smoke starts a
game under a disadvantage, for the
hitters go to the plate safe in the
knowledge that even if they are
beaned they will live to read about
it next day.
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FRANCHISE IN LEAGUE
BRUNSWICK, GA.. Nov. 14. At
meeting of the local baseball fans he!
with the object of naming delegate
and taking a franchise in the new Sou: u
Georgia league, organization of wlii<
will be held in Waycross tomorrow, it
was decided tol raise $5,000 with which
to start the local team on its way next
year. When the delegation from th
city leaves Friday morning ten per v -r
of the amount will have been pah
and the balance will be raised by pop :
lar subscription.
interest in the new league is kem
this city. The local Board of Trade lie
given the movement its moral suppo
and on every side the subject is In hr-'
discussed with enthusiasm.
NEW YORK WANTS AUTO RACES.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—A campaign
war was started today by the nioto
dealers exhibit company to bring the
Vanderbilt and Grand Prix races here
next fall.
