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X- • ■W< ZZ i W4 z ev<z ' 6e*r $L n 1 4'Sq 7 2S* W'* K i j iwrW » I bX. y W Wl- B W- Jl 2 < nuiK- wPrn IP £= -~ ' innw ? *** *j) Ks t. i L_ L _2*ZT, .. ~RS*R- i a tr •• Ty Cobb Is the Greatest Batter of Baseball History •!••+ ’!••+ •!•••!« •s** , b •£•••£• +•+ v»v Sam Crane Says Georgia Peach Leads Them All By Sam Crane. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—There is little more that can be said in praise of Ty Cobb than has already been written, but his batting average of .410 per cent that he made the past season to gether with his average of .420 per • ent he accomplished last season, places him in a class by himself as a batsman. During the season of 1912 he again came out ahead of those great batters of the American league—Joe Jackson. Tris Speaker and Napoleon Lajoie. To perform that feat is high honor enough, but, together with that record, he has the better one of having led the league for six consecutive seasons and bids fair to do the same for another half dozen years to come, provided the Detroit club can af ford to keep him that long, with the raises In salary that he will de mand and by all right is entitled to get. Cobb's record of 420 last season was the greatest batting that any player ever succeeded in accom plishing. Other players have ex celled those figures In percentage, as follows: Duffy, .438; Turner. .423. in ix9i: Burch. .423; Burkett. .23. in 1893, and baJole. 422. in 1901, but all those big averages were made be fore the present foul strike rule was adopted, and when batters like Burkett and Duffy could "kill the good ones" with ridiculous ease by Intentionally fouling off the hall, and even under 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 1U claim on Weiser. the star player of the (Char lotte. N. <’., club. 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, with the understanding that they were to have first pick of the te mi. They have claimed Weiser and their claim has been upheld by th* national com mission. I .W/ v JS I .i-Sfew/JOHN RUSKIN ■ You save » a NEW TYPE gg Aft money if you of cigar—modern in I ff. the ffl you get a PF Clgar ° to ' day - * s dl ' able Profit- ferent than any sc. cigar H Sv Sha k ng made—BIGGER and BET- f ‘H with TER - and e 9 ual in quality and K ?Sbox. workmanship to any 10c. cigar. Bk X onr *°May —if it isn't as good as we JWSjfrtfaloM wfir claim we won’t ask you to buy another one. gy ’• LEW,S CSGfIR MFG - co ” Newark ’ H - J - U*l*stlnd«(MMid«it Cigar FactonHo th* WwW '* jr J. N. HIRSCH I Disti ibutora. E L. ADAMS A CO * Atlanta. Ga Cobb came tight back the past season with the surprisingly good percentage of .410. No such con sistency of batting has ever been known, although "Cap” Anson, Dan Brouthers and also Hans Wagner have had big consecutive batting periods. When one stops to think what a .410 batting average means, then it can be a ppi-• elated. That record tells that t’obb, in a little over every other time at bat. made a base hit, and what dot s that mean to the 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 Cobb’s bludgeon, as nifty as It was. could not pull his team out of the rut. But see wh-.i a valuawte player t’obb Would be to the < Hants, a team that is always for year after year lighting for tb<‘ lending posi tion. Cobb's bat and hitting would he tnvaluaolc and would virtually assure Hie (Hants the pennant sea son after season. Giants Have Lacked Real Star. The (Hants liav. never been for tunate Hough i" >■ "re a cracker jack outtl Ider of : • Cobb. Speak er or Jackson slugging propensity. .McGraw could never get 1 is hooks mi a player like any of that big trio who can and do win game alter game with the wallop. No players have come to McGraw ready nun . lie has been obliged to develop his own team and play ers. and as a usual thine has been handicapped by a mediocre hitting outfield. A • Cobb in the Giants’ outer garden at d at bat would have won the world's series both this season and last. WENDELL AND BRICKLEY TO PLAY ON SATURDAY CAM BRIDGE, 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 tin 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. iHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1912. There is nothing in baseball bet ter than the punch, and with a clean-up slugger like Cobb, who can be depended on almost every other time at bat, the Giants would have been too strong, to tell the truth. It is possibly a good thing for the game that the Cobbs, Speakers and Jacksons are scattered around where their slugging can be scat teringly utilized, still I wouldn't mind if the Giants had T.vrus just the same. I want to see them beat out Mur phy again, and the Giants’ out field needs straightening. One can't get away from that. Brief Sketch of Coach Heisman’s Fleet Tech Gridiron Warriors YELLOW JACKETS COMPOSED OF YOUNG ATHLETES By 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 . nd might he properly dubbed the "Boy Teehites.' - not in playing abil ity and grit, but in age and weight. Hollowing is u brief sketch of bach man since he enterd the ath letic field, ami gives the lans an insight into what the "nucleus" really was and what the “big team" is composed of: Albert Loeb played wilt) th< Boys Higii school during iiis three years there and then came direct to Tech, playing scrub ball for three years and making' his letter in his fourth year. This is his second year 0.l 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. Ho 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 three 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 (tears more of football if li. returns next yean which is very doubtful. Again, we have a local product in "Fax" Montague, who is playing a guard and s lowing up in great style. He prepped at the Boys High school fur th:* years and has made the 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 tile entire satisfaction of all concerned. However, he is very light, weighing only 155. and this is iiis first year on the team. Captain l.euhrman has not got a "prep" school record to light his wa*. but I* irned the game at Tech, playing in tin class series. Coach Heisman saw him play and real ized that he was a good man He Is not flashy, but steady, clear headed and i> hard tackler and I luu gee 1 low e\, r. lie. like tin' ot ,i -• • is, I- fur short in the weight de p.lll in nt. as |t • null tips the scales at Hit. 1’111“ is hie third year mi i i> team and he will graduati this ■ in* com* to a m.Hi • .iu ,i | own an Helgiit, wuuiu in a player : HERE ARE RESULTS J : OF PAST BATTLES Z Z BETWEEN RIVALS Z • 18§3 —Tech 26, Georgia 6. • • 1894 —Tech 23. Georgia 0. • • 1895—N0 game. • • 1896—N0 game. • • 1897 —Georgia 28. Tech 0. • • 1898—Georgia 15, Tech 0. • • 1899—Georgia 20, Tech 0. • • 1900 —Georgia 12, Tech 0. • • 1901—No game. • • 1902 —Georgia 0, Tech 0. • • 1903 —Georgia 38, Tech 0. • • 1904 —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. • of the “big league’’ variety, and this is Hutton, who plays an end. Before entering Tech he played football tor 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 first 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 abie to play in the back field, where he is accustomed to playing, but again—weight 148. The only new man* out of an en tering ciass of over 200 who could make the team was “Scrappy’” Moore, the little 148-pound kid who 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 deiil of ex perience, having played for four years on the Little Roek High school team, where he was a star of tile “Evening" varsity. Before he leaves Tech he should make the all-Southern, and that is getting to be harder and harder to make every sea son. Rely on McDonald’s Punts. The man we shall now speak of is another one of those Boys High school players, having played with them for two years and scrubbed to;' 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 besides a kicker. He runs well with the 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 van play in. Homer Cook is the only real old man in the back field, and he is being depended upon to do a ma jority of the work that will keep COLDS Ws? CATARRH BAD BLOOD DOES A cold will usually aggravate the symptoms of Catarrh, just as it may in crease the pains of Rheumatism. But the cold has no more to do with the real cause of the one than with the other. Bad blood is the underlying cause for Catarrh; the circulation is infected with impurities which are de posited into the mucous membranes causing inflammation and irritation, followed by excessive secretion of the nose and throat, roaring sounds in the ears, neuralgia, inflamed eyes, etc. Being a deep-seated blood trouble, Catarrh must be treated constitutionally, for it is beyond the reach of local treatment. The blood must be purified—the cause re -rflD moved before a cure can be effected. S. S. S. cures Ca- > tarrh by cleansing the blood of all impure catarrhal mat- ter and at the same time building up the system by its fine tonic effects. In other words S. S. S. cures the trou ble by supplying the mucous membranes with healthy, EfLOOI) I’fc-giving blood instead of saturating them with ca tarrhal impurities. Special hook on Catarrh and any medical advice free to all who write and reipu .*<t same. S. S. S. is for sale al drug stores. n/£ SWIFT SPLUHC CO., ATLANTA, GA. Batsmen Sure Do Not Relish Fast Ball Pitching •i-*v •*•••> <-•<- ❖••s’ ❖••s’ ■{•••J. 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 your book as temporarily deranged or careless with the truth. Eor when 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 it 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 w’ould hate to leave school after having played on 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 witii one of those unexplainable "get there or burst” feelings. Fielder Has Bright Future. Fielder, the Cedartown 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, keteps him from being 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 Coach Heisman, scrubbing for three years, making iiis letter last year. He 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 North 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 lie will arrange ills plans to be here for the Tech-Georgia game Saturday. pitched. If a pitcher were to hurl nothing but his speediest straight ball all through ttie game, the chances are lie 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 YVood.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 l»ad been overrated and that they would surely 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, a 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 wtih 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. Ed Walsh would hardly have at :.lined iiis present status without the spitball, but minus his speed the spitter wouldn’t be worth a wooden nickel, while iiis 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 I'he oldest Ford is yet a young car—with a surplus of “go”, strength and power. Slow depreciation is a big factor in the economy of Ford maintenance. A long life—and a useful one—is the Ford’s unforfeitable birth right. Every third car a Ford—and every Ford user a Ford “booster.'' New prices—— runabout ss2s—touring ear S6O0 —deliv- ery ear $625 town car SBOO with all (•((uipinent, 1. <>. b. Detroit. Get partirfi lars from Ford Motor Company, 311 l‘i'aelitr<e street. Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factory. ever this year for two 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 .028. I didn't see a single ball he pitched, and just judged he was pitching by 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. Ths tear 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. brunswTcktotake FRANCHISE IN LEAGUE BRUNSWICK, GA., Nov. 14.—At a meeting of the local baseball fans held with the object of naming delegates and taking a franchise In the new South Georgia league, organization of which will be held in Waycross tomorrow, it was decided to raise $5,000 with which to start the local team on its way next year. When the delegation from this city leaves Friday morning ten per cent of the amount will have been paid in and the balance will be raised by popu lar subscription. Interest in the new league is keen in this city. The local Board of Trade has given the movement its moral support and on every side the subject is being discussed with enthusiasm. NEW YORK WANTS AUTO RACES. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—A campaign war was started today by the motor dealers exhibit company to bring the Vanderbilt and Grand Prix races hero next fall.