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LOVE OF iZM
CAUSED GIANTS’
DOWNFALL
By Sam Crane.
N-rGW " YORK, Nov. 15. —Was
there a “yellow streak." or sev
eral of them, developed among
. Giants in the last world’s se-
ri<-> •’
riiat is a question that was ar
„Ued pro and con in a recent san
s. -t between several baseball fans
( nd players at an uptown resort
week where lovers of base
. re wont to congregate to win
vinter championships, dilate on
strength of various teams, com
j.-ire different managers, clubs and
i 'vers try to transform the great
national game and “chew the rag"
in general.
Strange to say, the players of
the party, two of whom partici
pated in last season's pennant
race* were the ones who were the
m , lst 'insistent that the yellow
.peak materialized and lost the
tbants the gonfalon, emblematic of
the championship of the universe.
Snodgrass Not Blamed.
Snodgrass was not accused of
showing the tainted strain, be
,-ause. as one player said, “any
body is liable to muff a ball, even
on the easiest kind of a fly.”
Fletcher and Merkle, however,
did not escape so easily, for their
mistakes in the last inning—the
, nth, of the eighth and deciding
game—were claimed to be due to
their failures to try for fly balls
that they could easily have reach
,l had they not deliberately quit.
Fletcher's fault of omission was
in starting for a fly hit over his
head into short left center, and
then when by an extra effort lie
could have reached the ball, he
stopped, thereby losing all chance
to catch it and also mixed up both
Snodgrass and Murray, either of
whom might have got to the ball,
thereby causing them to cease try
ing for the catch.
Merkle, it was claimed by the
fanfesters, made no attempt at all
to get a foul fly by Speaker and on
a ball that he usually “eats up,” on
high was the fly, too. that Meyers,
who ran all the way from behind
•he plate, missed reaching the ball
by inches only, and the chief is no
(printer.
Merkle and Fletcher Guilty.
It was decided that faults of
• ission, in not "sticking to the
ball." showed the yellow streak
cost decisively, and that Fletcher
mo .Merkle were the guilty ones.
Both Fletcher and Merkle were
n-rvous; there is not the least
loubt of that; but nervousness does
tot necessarily brand any player as
‘yellow."
What I think was the chief
au.se of those players failing in the
pinch was that the money differ
ence between the winners’ and
losers' end was so big that when the
plays came to Merkle and Fletcher
to < inch the big end the responsibil
ity put up to them was too much,
and they weakened under the
strain.
I can remember that some of the
"tightest wads" among them talk
ed between themselves as to what
players ought to be entitled to a full
shate of the world’s series receipts •
and those who should get smaller
divvys." Arfd. mind you, this was
going on when the season was. not
naif over They were money mad,
nothing else.
Slump Broke Their Nerve.
rhen when their slump came,
and they dropped from their big
lead to a paltry' one of four games
and a half, those were surely the
troublous times. The non-spenders
tightened up closer than ever:
took to trolley cars or shanks’
mate; wouldn’t even buy newspa
pers: lost pounds in weight and
went around with pinched, drawn
faces, woebegone and sick at heart.
They saw a j| th a t money they
a i counted over so often gradually
drifting away from them. They
weii shattered mentally and phys
ically. They had lost their nerve,
and wondered why they couldn’t
"in their games. They were play
ing their money Instead of base
ball.
ci 'w, is it any wonder, thinking
as much of money as they did —
dreaming about it, in sact —that
vhen the time came that they saw
51.5P0 ebbing away from each into
pockets of the Red Sox, they
' nine nervous during the world’s
series ?
I' as nervous streaks, not “yel
ones, that cost them the
""il.j s championship.
But where does the difference
in?” may be asked.
' s beyond me.
Watty Mclntyre best
COAST LEAGUE HITTER
tl . 1 RANt'ISCO. Nov. 15. —Matty
by a remarkable spurt in the
. , ■ ’"<> weeks of the season, cap-
|._ ' highest baiting honors in the
i. ' "ast league for the season of
Matty finished the year with the
yrage of .382, and by so doing
■ "d one of the most sensational
, advances ever known in the
bistory. Matty advanced 34
during the final week’s pas
s'd ?4 points the week previous.
.” n d'-rful rise gives him a load of
lb Points over his teammate. Del
rd. for many weeks leader of the
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Techites’ Dope Shows Georgia
and Jackets Evenly Matched
By J. S. Moore, Jr.
(The Georgian’s Tech Correspondent.)
IN considering the big game to
morrow between Georgia and
Tech, there are several phases
which are for Tech and several
which are against Tech, and it is
up to the reader to pick the winner
from the dope, thus known. There
# are five phases to be considered in
the present, as well as the histori
cal part of the affair.
There is the head work or gener
alship to be considered; the
weights and charging ability of
each team; how the weight is dis
tributed; the speed, of the teams as
a whole and, as individuals; expe
rience of men who will be used to
carry the ball and thus do the
prime part of the work; the defen
sive abilities and lasting qualities,
and finally, the mental attitudes of
the teams before and, during the
game.
For the past two years Bob Mc-
Whorter has been the Jonah for
Tech, and he is still with Georgia,
but it will also be remembered that
last season there was another man
on the team who, by his inspiration
alone, did as much, if not more,
than any man on the Georgia team
toward defeating Tech, and that
was “Kid” Woodruff, the gamest
and best quarterback the univer
sity has ever had. He just natural
ly knew how to get work out of
that bunch of men and could handle
“Bob” McWhorter in a manner that
made a gain every time he was run.
“Kid” knew the team, their weak
nesses, their strength and he had
their confidence.
He is gone this year and there
has been a pulling apart instead of
a pulling together of the Georgia
bunch. Now, the question is. Can
Coach Cunningham get a man ca
pable of diagnosing the situation
and holding his heaf and the
heads of the entire team during the
whole game? So far he has not
been able to do so. No less than
four quarterbacks have been used
this season and a new one will run
the team tomorrow.
Hard Job For Paddock.
Paddock, an unknown quantity
and a young player, will take the
job. He has a man’s job on his
shoulders. Can he inspire confi
dence into an old team in a week?
Can he meet the tiicks of Heisman
for the first time and size up the
defense and meet it accordingly?
So much for Georgia’s generalship.
Tech will have Cook calling sig
nals and running the team. He has
been at this job for two years, has
played with this team at the same
place all this season, and has the
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1912.
confidence of the entire team. He
has played against Georgia for two
years and understands to a degree
Cunningham’s style of play. It
stands to reason that he can run
the team in the way that it should
go. So much for Tech’s general
ship. Score one for Tech.
Now a glance at the lino and
their respective charging ability.
Start with Capt-iin .Leuhrmann,
who plays left tackle and weighs
170. He is an old man and an extra
good charger. Against him we
have Henderson, a 200-pound first
year man, but an athlete from the
word go. At left guard Montagu?
will play for Tech, Weighing 155,
this being his first year at college
football. He will play against Har
rell, a 190-pound man, and consid
ered a peer among linemen of the
South. Loeb will play center,
weighing 155, and will be opposed
by Covington, who has played at
the gamp for years, and weighs 161.
At right tackle, for Tech, Colley,
a flrst-year man weighing 168, will
be used. He is a good player, but
extra light compared to Malone,
the 190-pound man whom he plays
against. Malone has played for two
years and is a very good man.
Right guard is occupied by
Means, weighing 172, and about
the best lineman Tech possesses.
His man is Captain Peacock,
weigh 190, who has three years
of experience along with it.
Moore Is Light, but Good.
At right end. Moore, a 140-pound
boy just out of high school, will
oppose Parrish, an 180-pound man.
who is considered one of Georgia’s
best men. Moore is light, but will
be there with bells on.
At the other end, Hutton, weigh
ing 148, and a first year man. will
have his hands full in taking care
of Conklin. 155 pounds, the light
est man in the Georgia fine. This
is the summary of the men on
tv horn will depend the opening up
of the holes for the backs to go
through.
In the back field, Georgia will de
pend on McWhorter and Bowden,
weighing 185 and 170. respective
ly, while Tech will rely principally
on McDonald and Cook, with Thom
asson as the tine bucket-, Cook tips
the .scale at 159, while McDonald
goes to 150. Georgia's backs will
buck, while Tech will rely on end
runs and trick plays. Thus Geor
gia, aided by her heavy line and
the individual stars in the back
field, has the advantage here.
Now as to the defensive abili
ties of the teams. Tech has a light
bunch, but they tackle like fiends.
0. DESHLER WAS
NEAR-CHAMPION
FEMS AGO
r ) 'HE Dixie Athletic club has
| staged what should prove a
very classy lightweight bout
for next Tuesday night. Dave
Deshler, of I’ostc::, will swap
punches with Clarence English,
who has given satisfaction here
several times.
Deshler about five years ago
looked to have a fine chance of be
ing champion of the 133-pounders.
He was the man who stopped the
wonderful career of Kid Goodman,
and he earned a draw with Packey
McFarland. But poor management
caused Deshler to be lost in the
shuffle.
He is now trying to “come back,”
and if he is half as good as he was
five years ago he will give English
one of the merriest times the Oma
ha gent has enjoyed in many a day.
English recently was beaten by
Ray Bronson after a hard fight.
Deshler has twice held Bronson to
a draw.
COLUMBIA ENTERS TEAM.
NEW YORK. Nov. 15. —For the first
time in its history Columbia university
has entered a team in the national
cross-country race for juniors, which
will be run Saturday.
and are quick to line up on every
play, as many as three men tack
ling one player. Georgia may
have improved many ways, but in
the Vanderbilt game and also in the
Alabama contest, they'were way be
low in this feature, while Tqeh has
been slowly but surely strengthen
ing their defensive play. Tech - ,
therefore, scores one here.
Now, Tech and Georgia both
have their weight pretty well dis
tributed. and stand about equal
here.
Tech Team a Big Family.
Now as to the big deal. Has
Georgia, with all her weight, in
dividual stars and experience, got
the team work of the Yellow Jack
ets? Positively not! There are
absolutely no factions on the Tech
team. Ev rybody. even to the wa
ter boy, is working for the same
cause, and here again Tech scores.
Tech has lost for the past two
j ears, and their attitude is one of
"now is the time.*' and with this
detei niinati'.n they will go against
the Red and Black.
It can readily be seen that Tech
and Georgia are apparently evenly
matched, and if the weather is hot
and dry Tech’s fight men will not
feel it, while Georgia’s weight will
call for rest.
CRACKERS SELL McELVEEN;
PITCHER DONNELLY SIGNED
Billy Smith has released Humpty Mc-
Elveen, who played third base for the
<Tackers last season, and next spring
he will hang his hat with the Beau
mont club, in the Texas league.
Billy has just signed Pitcher Donnelly,
right hander, who was with the Boston
Nationals last year.
Smith did not send us a special .tele
gram announcing these changes.
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