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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 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
eent he accomplished last season,
places him in a clans by himself as
a batsman.
During the season of 1812 he
again came out ahead of those
great batters of the , American
league—Joe Jackaor. Tris Speaker
and Napoleon Lajoi'. To perform
that feat Is high honor enough, but,
together with that racord, he has
the better one of having led the
league for six consecutive seasons
and blds fair to do the same for
another half dozen years to come,
provided the Detroit club can af
ford to keep hhn that long, with
the raises tn salary that he will de
mand and by all right is entitled to
eet.
Cobb’e record of 420 last season
was the greatest hatting that any
player ever succeeded in accom
plishing. Other players have ex
celled those figures In percentage,
aa follows:
Duffy, .438; Turner. .423. In 1894
Bur. h. .423; Burkett, .23. in 1895,
and JaiJole, .428, 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 ball,
m>d 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 olub has lost its claim
on Wetaor, the star player of the Char
loth , N. C., club. He was sold to At
lanta and the money paid. But now it
appears that the Dallas, Texas, club
sold Ooteen to Charlotte last spring,
with the understanding that they -were
to have first pick of the team. They
have claimed Weiser and their claim
haa been upheld by the national com
mission.
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Cobb came right 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
Urouthers 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 appreciated. That record
tells that Cobb, in a little over
every other time at bat. made a
base hit, and what does that mean
to the club and team having such
a wonder on its line-up?
Unfortunately, the Tigers’ pitch
ing staff went al! to pieces the past
season, and Cobb's bludgeon, as
nifty as it was, could not pull his
team out of the rut.
But si e what a valuante player
Cobb would be to the (Hants, a
team that Is always for year after
year fighting for the leading posi
tion. Cobb's bat and hitting would
be invaluable and would virtually
assure the Giants the pennant sea
son after season.
Giants Have Lacked Real Star.
The Giants have never been for
tunate nough to secure a cracker
jack outfielder of the Cobb, Speak
er or Jackson slugging propensity.
McGraw could never get his hooks
on a player like any of that big
trto, who can and do win game
after game with the wallop.
No players have come to McGraw
ready made. Ke has been obliged
to develop his own team and play
ers, anti as 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
Beason 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 Brlckley’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
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, NO\ EMBER .14, 1912.
There is nothing in baseball bet
ter than the punch, and with a
clean-up slugger HKe 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
whore their slugging can be scat
terlngly utilized, still I wouldn’t
mind if the Giants had Tyrus just
the same.
1 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 Mood" 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
"Boy Techites»* not in playing abil
ity and grit, but in age and weight.
Following is a brief sketch of
each man since he enterd the ath
letic field, and gives the fans an
I insight into what the "nucleus"
really was and .what the "big team”
is composed of:
Albert Loeb played with the Boys
High school during his three years
there and then came direct to Tech,
playing scrub ball f»r three years
and malting his letter In his fourth
year. This is his second year on
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 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 years more of football if
lie returns next year, which is very
doubt ful.
Again, we have a local product
in "Fax" Montague, who is playing
a guard and showing up In great
style. He prepped at the Boys
High school for three 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 toot
bull player. He is playing a guard
to the entire satisfaction of al!
concerned. However, he is very
light, weighing only 155, and this
is his first year on the team.
Captain la?u>»rnian has not got a
“prep" school record to light Ills
way, hut learned the game at Tech,
playing in the class series. Coach
Heisman saw him play and real
ized that lie was a good man He
is not ilashy, but steady, clear
headed ami n lisnl tackler end
climger. However, he. like tile otll
e s, is tur short .lit the weight de
partment. as lie only tips the scales
nt IP, Tills is hie third year on
tin tea n and lie will graduate thb
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• HERE ARE RESULTS :
: OF PAST BATTLES 2
2 BETWEEN RIVALS 2
• 1893—Tech 26, Georgia 5. •
• 1894—Tech 22, Georgia 0. •
• 1895—N0 game. •
• 1896 —No game. •
• 1897—Georgia 28. Tech 0. •
• 1898 —Georgia 15, Tech 0. •
• 1899 —Georgia 20, Tech 6. •
• 1900—Georgia 12, Tech 0. •
• 1901-—No game. •
• 1902 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. •
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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 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 able 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 class of over 200 who could
make the team was "Scrappy”
Moore, the Utile 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 deal of ex
perience, having for four
years on the Little Rock High
school team, where he was a star
of the "Evening” varsity. Before
he leaves Tftch 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 shall 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 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
can play in.
Homer <’ook is the only real old
man in the back field, and he is •
being depended upon to do a ma
jority of the work tli<i 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. Lardner,
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.
For 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 fcas 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 on the team three years
without beating Georgia one*. 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 16<i
and will go into the game with one
of those unexplaina'ble "get there
or burst" feelings.
Fielder Has Bright Future.
Fielder, the Cedartown Higii
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. AVith 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 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 bearcatg 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 throb years, making his 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 a s soon as rhe National as
sociation meeting is over, and will come
straight to Atlanta.
Bill is an awful football bug. and it
is figured that he will arrange his plans
to be here for the Tech-Georgia game
Saturday.
pitched. If a pitcher were to hurl
nothing but his gpeediest straight
ball all through the game, the
chances are he would be pounded
pretty hard before the finish, for
the batters would grow accus
tpmed 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 scries 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
surely get him next time out.
Woodj’ 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.
lid Walsh would hardly 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 two reasons: b -
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 ti e
’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 tiling." 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
watching his arm come around."
If Wood had happened to be wild
and had sent one at Merkle's bean, 1
the latter wouldn’t have bad i
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 thel
knowledge" that even if they are|
beaned they will live to read about
it next day.
BRUNSWICK TO TAKE
FRANCHISE IN LEAGU
BRUNSWICK, GA.. Nov. 14. At
meeting of the local baseball fans i’.a
with the object of naming delega:
and taking a franchise in the new Sou
Georgia league, organization of whii
will be held in Waycross tomorrow,
was decided to raise $5,000 with whii
to start the local team on its way n
year. When the delegation tem th
city leaves Friday morning ten p i "
of the amount will have been paid
and the balance will be raised by pop
lar subscription.
Interest in the new league is keen
this city. The local Board of Trade hi
given the' movement its moral suppn
and* on every side the subject is bell
discussed with enthusiasm.
NEW YORK WANTS AUTO RACE
NEW YORK. Nov. 14. A eanipail
war was started today by the mot
dealers exhibit company to bring '
Vanderbilt and Grand Prix races hr'
next fall.