Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, November 14, 1912, NIGHT, Image 14

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Mila » r v?i m, i wWF nr w s w "Ww njfflflC XtuS— -I u' L ’ —W ~ ib j - z ‘ M - ■ A, ~ , _ 4 | , • r#/> c« Ty Cobb Is the Greatest Batter of Baseball History •:•••:• +•+ +•+ ❖•• - +•<• •<••<• '<•••;• •£•••»• •>••;• Sam Crane Says Georgia Peach Leads Them All By Sam Crane. NSW YORK, Nov. 14.—There is little morn that < - an be said in praise of Tj 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 cent he accomplished last season, places him in a class by htrneelf as a batsman. I taring the season of 1912 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 record, he has the better one of having led ths league for six consecutive reasons and blds fair to co 'he same for another half dozen years to come, provided the I'“troit club can af ford to keep h'm that lone, with the raises in salary thnt he will de mand and by all right is entitled to get. Cobb's record of 42'1 lasi season was the greatoet batting that any player ever succeeded in accom plishing. Other players have ex celled those figures in percentage, as follows Duffy, .438; Turner .123. In 1894 Burch, .423; Burkett, .23. in 1897. and lAjoie. .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 ball, 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 its claim on Weiser, 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 Osteen to Charlotte last spring, with the understanding that they were to have first pick of the team. They have claimed Weiser and their claim has been upheld by the national com mission. JOHN RUSKIN y °? save a new tyfe I money if you JBESg&ME&p o f c jg ar —modern in I ."" y , d ", aiL *? get a cigar of to-day. It s dis- able Profit- ferent than any sc. cigar M W Sharing made—BIGGER and BET- ■ withSTER, and equal in quality and ■ gfflbox workmanship to any 10c. cigar. I V a •1. trfy B Buv one to-day if it isn’t as good as we B claim we won't ask you to buy anothei one. I w JrF™ '" -f |. LEWIS CIGAR MFG. CO., Newark, N. J. Largwt InOotMiutot Clgof factory to tho W<mW d. N. HIRSCH 'Distributor*. f ~ E1 L * DAMS A CO Atlanta. G» Cobb came right back the past season with the surprisingly good percentage of .11 No such con sistency of batting has ever been known, although "Cap" Anson, Iran Brouthers and aiso 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 w at does that mean to the club and 'earn 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 war. could not pull his team out of the rut. But see what a valuante player Cobb wo ’d be to tlie < 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 tn■ ■ pennant sea son after season. Giants Have Lacked Real Star. The i.it.nta have neV|t*r been for tunate nough to secure a i racker jack outfielder of tile Cobb, Speak er or Jackson slugging propensity. McGraw' could never get his hooks oti a player like any ot that big trio, who can and do win game after game with the wallop. No players have come to McGraw ready made. He has been obliged to develop his own team and play ers, and 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 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. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1912. There is nothing in baseball bet ter than the punch, aad 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 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, <Tr. 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 "Boy Teehites,” 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 letjc field, and gives the fans an 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 for three years and making his letter in his fourth year. This is his second year oa 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 bad recently. He has two years mote of football if he returns next year, which is very doubtful. Again, we have a local product in "Fax" Montague, who is playing a guard and showing up in great style. Ho prepned at the -Boys High school for three years and has made tho 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" schoyl record to light his way, but learned the game at Tech, playing in the class series. Coach Heisman saw him play and real ized that be was a good man. He is not Ihtshy, but steady, clear headed and a hard tackler and charge However, he, like tit* oth ers. is far short in the weight de partment, as he <>nh tips the scales nt 170 T!' ls his third y>nr on :.i< team and lie will gradual’ title moi ing IV. t o.’ < ooi. to a malt u "<>. if n.o. UP wigiti, would o< , pa). J HERE ARE RESULTS : : OF PAST BATTLES J J BETWEEN RIVALS J • 1893—TpcIi 26, Georgia 5. • • 1894 —Tech 22, Georgia 0. • • 1893—N0 game. • • 1896—N0 game. ® • 1897—Georgia 28, Tech 0. • • ’B9B—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 n. • • 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 o. • Os 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 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 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. Before 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 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,ls 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 mon' years at Tech, all of which he can play in. Homer Cook is the only real old ivan in the back field, and he is being depended upon to do a ma jority of the work that will keep COLDS 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 ohe 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 I the ears, neuralgia, inflamed ey es, etc. Being a deep-seated blood trouble, I Catarrh must be treated constitutionally, for it is beyond the reach of local i treatment. The blood must be purified—the cause re- 1 move 'f before a cure can be effected. S. S. S. cures Ca- ! Y V 1 by cleansing the blood of all impure catarrhal mat- fW ter and at the same time building up the system by its fine tonic effects. In other words S. S. S, cure* the trou- ble by supplying the mucous membranes with healthy BLOOD ! ife-giving blood instead of saturating them with ca tarrhal im|»uriti« Special book on Catarrh and any , medical mlviie fuc to all who write am! request Maiue, S, S. S. is for sale at drug stores. TH£ S p EanC C(J ATLANTA, GA. Batsmen Sure Do Not Relish Fast Ball Pitching •>••!• •>••!• -?•-> <-•<- -r*-> •>•<• Demand of All Managers Is for ‘‘Smoke Artists”' By R. \V. Lardner. 1 T YHENEVER you hear a ball yy player remark that he likes to hit against fast pitching, or that he can hit it better than anything else, or tiiat 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 suit, and pot 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 would 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 with 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. 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 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 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 as soon a« the National as sociation meeting is over, and will come straight to Atlanta. Bill is an awful football bug. and it is figured that be w ill arrange ills plans to b<‘ here for the Tech-Georgia 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 surely get him next time out. AVoody 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 Bed lent 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 witli 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 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 The oldest Eord 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 ear a Ford—and every Ford user a Ford “booster.” New prices runabout $.'»25 touring ear s<>oo -deliv ery car s62s—town ear sMM)—with all eqtiijnnent, 1. o. b. Detroit. Get particu lars from Ford Motor t’oiupany. Illi I I eachtl'ee street, Atlanta, or direct from I Detroit factory. ■ ever this year for two reasons; bp. ■ cause he had better backing and because Griffith taught him how to ■ pitch. But Griff couldn't have given him speed if he bad lucked it. and. j after all. Johnson's speed is what makes him one of the tno-t feared pitchers in baseball. Fred Merkle, who has not been smiled on by fa.e very . Aa < unfortunate enough to be un in the pinch in an inning when Wood showed bis best speed ”f tit.' re- - , cent series. He was out on strikes, having swung at every on,. 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 I 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 Merkl-•'< the latter wouldn’t hav- had a chance to get out of the way Th fear of being wounded is another ] thing that makes the batter dislike I fast pitching, no matter how often he may swear lie pref-rs it to .-low. j The man with a comparatively 1 .-mall amount of stnoke stalls al game under a disadvantage, for the • hitters go to the plate safe in the knowledge that even if they are j beatted they will live to read about J it next day. BRUNSWICK TO TAKE FRANCHISE IN LEAGUE BRUNSWICK. GA.. N,,\. 11. A a meeting of the local baseball t’.ir-- h with the object of naming d"■■••sates and taking a franchise in th i” v. South; Georgia league, organization of wi.ichj will be held in Waycross tnmo., " was decided to raise 25,000 with which to start the local team on its way nexs year. When the delegation fr,on this city leaves Friday morning ten p ) cent of the amount will have been paid is and the balance will be raised by pops lar subscription. Interest In the new league is keen is this city. The local Board of Trade has: given the movement its moral suppFtj and ort every side the subject is being discussed with enthusiasm. NEW YORK WANTS AUTO RACES. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—A eampaiiF war was started today by the nwto" dealers exhibit company to bring it Vanderbilt and Grand Prix r.e • a >” next tall.