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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
GIANTS TO TRAIN
 FOR BIG SERIES
 IN QUAKER GAMES

New York, September 30-In the first of three game series here today with the Philadelphia team the New York Giants will begin training for the post season worlds championship games With only three games won from the Giants this season the Quakers are not expected to decrease the standing of the National league champions. The Quakers, however. were the stumbling block to retrieve some of the honor the Giants took from them McGraw to put in many of hls regulars slated for a rest preparatory to the worlds series. Marquard. Robinson and possibly Tesreau and Mathewson may be forced to take hand but the admirers of the Giants are hopeful that the pitch CTS on McGraw's staff will be fin good shape for the games against Stahl's Red Socks. A little rest with just enough warming up to keep In condition ap- pears to be the order at the Polo Grounds, and unless McGraw decides that his men need more strenuous exercise few of those eligible for the world series will be seen in the remaining seasons work. McGraw Is placing great reliance in Marquard Tesreau and Mathewson to win from the Red Socks and the New York fans are expecting McGraw to out general Stah in the finer points of the game at critical stages. With the Quakers anxious to make a good showing a fast game on the bases is predicted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01

John McGraw, the peppery manager Of the champion New York Giants, is one of the most prominent figures In baseball today. He is one of the most successful managers that the game has ever pro- duced, and is perhaps the most talked of man In the game. Just at present he is preparing to lead his National cham pions against tho Boston Red sox for the worlds championship, and expresses his confidence of winning four games from the American champions. A majority of the dopists of the country are picking the Bestonans to defeat the New York CTS in this great series. but Muggsy in- inmates that he has machine that will prove superior to that of Stahl when the crucial series arrives.
 McGraw is man of peculiar person. ality and while he Is somewhat un- popular here in the south, he is the idle of the eastern fans. He Is, also, 8 man of many sides Although he rules his players with Q tyrannical hand, he is said to be one of the most liberal man. agers in either league, and he never turns away an old player who appeals to him for ait Besides this 1t Is known fact that the Giant manager keeps on his club a list of wornout ball artists merely for nominal services, such as warm up his pitchers, etc, because they are unable to secure employment elsewhere.
 He has utmost confidence in his own judgment and convictions and buys, sells and keeps players as be sees fit regard less of the wishes of the New York pa irons. It will be remembered that he held on to Marquard and Merke when practically every fan In the city was bowling for their release. And these men have shown by their success since the unerrlng judgment of the Giant leader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01

The most important discovery here and one that Is likely to be verified in the worlds series is that Speaker main- tains his tremendous sbatting clip of the season against the best twirling to be found in the American league. It makes little difference to Iris who pitches or how, if the ball comes in the vicinity of the plate he does the rest. The ancient joke about the only weakness" of a batsman being a base on balls applies to Speaker.
 Lewis is found to lose 25 per cent of his clouting ability when facing the right handlers, increases his aver age 20 per cent when opposed to the southpaws and chooses. Walsh to fat ten up on to the extent of II per cent.
 Hooper, the light hitter of the trio, a left handed batsman. can only hit so per cent of his regular form when facing the speed and curves of Johnson. Coombs, ct al, but strange 1y increases his light average to the extent of 10 per cent when facing the portslde twirlers. He falls a victim to the. Walsh spitball as he does to the other right handlers.
 In total batting strength the Red Sex outfielders have a margin of 35 points over the Giants gardeners but do not maintain this advantage in SCOT ing runs as a glance al the above fig ures will show.
 Final comparisons of the two out fields will be found in the last article of this series.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01

Most sporting writers agree that su- periority in the pitching department is going to play an important part in the worlds series. They admit the ability of both the Giants and Red Sox, and pre- diet that superior pitching will mean much in deciding the contests. When these two championship contenders meet next Tuesday for the first game of the series. which aggregation is going to have the advantage in the hurling department? 1t Is a question which is going to be big factor in deciding the initial game
 Suppose that Tesreau Is facing Joe Wood in the first contest Tesreau, from his record this season, is one of the greatest pitchers on the Giant staff. He is fellow of powerful build and tireless energy, Moreover. his chief asset is q deadly splitter, and this is the most eff fective ball that can be used against the Red sox. Proof of this is seen in the eff feetiveness of Walsh. the great spitbalI artist of the American league, against the new champions. When facing Walsh the hitting of the Red Sox decreases at an average of one-half Furthermore, Johnny Evers declares that the irrigated slants of Tesreau are as deceitful as those of the White Sox marvel. This be- ing the case, the followers of Jakey Stahl are going to have a hard time con meeting successfully with the benders Of the Giant slabman.
 But 1t must be taken into consideration that the splitter is the hardest ball known to control, and it is mostly when Tesreau is unable to control this ball that he is beaten. It is his one big asset and chief dependence. And the Giant slabman must be able to cut the corners for the Red Sox hitters, for he will find himself facing the best aggregation of walters that either league affords. This is one Of the winning characteristics of the Bos-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
CUBS WILL HAVE
 NEW GRANDSTAND
 BY NEXT SEASON

Chicago. September 29-The Chicago Nationals will start next season with q new steel and concrete grandstand to cost s600,000.s and with q capacity of eO,- GOO, it was announced by President Mur- phy today. Twelve thousand will have to stand when capacity crowd is present and arrangements to prevent those stand ing from interfering with the vision of those seated are novel. A subway about IS inches deep Is to be exeavated in front of the "bleachers' and stands and on days when all accommodations are re- quired the last corners will have to stand in the ''dugout."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
DRIVERS BEGIN
 PRACTICE FOR
 VANDERBILT CUP

Race Course. Wauwatosa, Wis, Sep tember 30.-Practice began today for the Vanderbilt cup. Pabst and Wisconsin trophy and grand prix automobile races, scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday and thrills Frcm the very outset cars be : gan to average around 7s miles an hour, which surprised the thousands of spes- tators along the course.
 Tetzlaff in the Fiat which he will drive in the Vanderbilt cup race Wednesday 7 skirted lap on the eight mile course in six minutes IS seconds, a little bettes than an 80 mile an hour average. Te also drove several laps with his larger pilot in the grand prix, but his time with this was slower.
 thrill was provided when Caleb Bragg in the big car he win drive in the grand prix came down the stretch at a 90 mile an hour clip and two yards of read tire thread flew off. This shot perpendicularly into the sair to a height of several hundred feet and returned al- most to the identical spot where the ma
  course of the car was not diverted. When making next to his last lap tho right lens of Tetzlaffs goggles was struck byfa stone thrown up when he was passing another car. Spinters of glass from the broken lens were driven into his eye, but he continued onto nis pit. He was not seriously hit, but sev- eral bits of glass were removed from his eye and he started off on another lap.
 As such fast time was made on .he rebuilt course over which the drivers had previously had no practice makes starter Fred J. Wagner and other racing ex- perts sanguine that the worlds automo- bile road race record will be broken here. The present record Is held by Tetzlaff, approximately 7Sla miles an hour made at Santa Monica Gal, this year. The opinion is unanimous that the Var derbilt cup record of 7i.07 miles an hour made by Mulford at Savannah last year and the grand prix record of 74.45 male by David Bruce-Brown at the same course will be lowered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
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MIGRANTS RECRUIT HURLERS
 SHOW SURPRISING STRENGTH
WOULD INDICATE STRONG TEAM BEHIND THEM-GIANTS WIN 101ST VICTORY-RED SOX FA- VORITISM WEAKENING IN NEW YORK

New York, September 30-Enthusiasts, following concluding work of the New York Giants before the world series, are surprised with the strength of McGraws string of recruit pitchers. Such men as Demaree Kirby, Gouait and Bader, all strange names in the Giants lineup, have been tried out in the past few games since the pennant was assured and helped to boost the Giants showing.
 Bader, a youngster from Dallas, Tex, pitched a winning game against Philadel- phia today, although nine hits were made off him. None of these recruits is eligi- ble for the big games next week, but the fact that they are winning games is pointed to by many fans as indicating strong men behind them. Tn the last five games the Giants have played the onIy one lost was pitched by the so-called star of the team, Big Jeff Tesreau, against Boston Saturday:
 Today's victory was the one hundred and first for the Giants this season. one less than the string of Boston Ameri- can victories to date Predominance Of earlier opinion that the Red Sox would be strong favorites in the world series Is weakening, particularly here. Many of the experts" say the contenders are so evenly matched that seven game series is not at all unlikely
 The clear cool day, keeping the crowd at the Polo Grounds in shivering state, led to much speculation as to world series weather. The heavy rains last week are believed to have emptied the clouds for some time to come but chill winds seemed from unofficial observation to be in pros- pect It is recalled that last year the weather was so rainy during the big game season that 1t took 13 days to dis pose of the six contests.
 At National league headquarters to- day Secretary John Heydler was busy preparing his list of preferred patrons, including organized baseball officials, sea son box holders and authorized major league newspaper men. He announced that this list would be closed promptly at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening and that positively no applications for reservations after that hour would be considered. These preferred patrons are to be ac- eommodated at the 8 rate in the upper tier of the grandstand and after the list has been deducted from the 5000 seats available in that section the balance is to be placed on public sale in advance The time and place for this sale probably will be announced on Thursday, s&d Mir Heydler.
 The balance of 9oOOD seats at the Polo Grounds can be bought only at tho grounds on the days of the games.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
BASEBALL GOSSIP

The Philadelphia Athletics, veterans of two championship series. are going to prepare the Boston Red Sox for the worlds series by playing as far as pos sible the New York style of ball. when they meet the Sox for the last series of the season this week. The present world S champions should be able to give Stahl' $ bunch quite few pointers during the con tests that will be of considerable advantage to them when they tackle the Giants next week.
 By winning yesterday from Washington the Boston Red Sox equalled the record made by the Athletics in 1911 for number of games won. During that season Connie Mack's men won 102 and lost IS of the 150 games played. The New York Giants have but one more game to win to equal the r cord of the Athletics. also. With four lore games to be played. both teams should pass the 1os mark.
 One reason why President Murphy os the Chicago club was so anxious to have the Cubs nail the National pennant this season was that he saw visions of Ed Walsh in city championship contest. in case of their failure., Walsh has been a thorn in Mir. Murphys side for some several seasons now in these contests. and it is probable that besides the coin and glory that the Cubs would have attained as pennant winners. their president would prefer to take chances against the Red Sox bunch than have his team face the spitters of the White Sox hurIer
 sss
 Whats to become of Frank Glance. the peerless leader of the Chicago Cubs? President Murphy of the Chicago associa- tion says that Chance decided last June that he could not again pilot the Cubs because of i'll health, and that another leader would be seen at the helm of the comes out with the statement that he has fully recovered his health and that it is strictly up to Mr. Murphy to say whether he shall again be manager al Chicago, and there you are. It Is hard to see how Mir. Murphy. is going to re. fuse the services of such manager as Chance if he is able to secure them Chance has kept the Cubs in the running every season since he has been mana ger of the club. and this season, with al inferior club, he made a strong bid fol the pennant. Mir. Murphy will have a biz job on his hands in finding general whf will duplicate the work of Chance jr case he decides to replace him.
 It is matter of regret that Al Demarse the premier hurler of the Southern circuit is ineligible to participate in the world ] series. Demaree's debut in the major league was most suspicious, and he gave evidence of becoming a strong factor or McGraw's slab corps. Had he been eligi. ble for these contests. 1t is probable that McGraw would have given him chance after his brilliant work against Boston last week.
 One of the resons why the Boston Red Sox have scored so many runs against their opponents this season Is that they are in class to themselves when it comes to working opposing pitchers for free passes. Records through August 31 show that the new champions have been given free transportation to the initial corner no less than 40 times this season. The Washington Nationals, who have occupied
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
ON THE LINKS

Manchester. Mass, September 30.-- Miss Margaret Curtis, the American woman golf champion of 1911, won the honors today in the opening round of the eighteenth national woman's golf championship, playing on her home course at the Essex Country club. Un- der unusually severe conditions. by req Curtis covered the course in the quail flying round of IS holes in ss strokes; three better than Miss Georglanna Bishop of Bridgeport, the 1904 holder.
 The drawing for the first round of match play tomorrow resulted In com paratively few sectional clashes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
LYNCH TO PROBE
 FOGEL'S CHARGES

New York, September 30.-President Thomas J. Lynch of the National league purposes to have the board of directors of the league investigating charges. of Horace S. Fogel, president of the Phils adelphia club, that favorable decisions by certain umpires were responsible for the New York club winning the pen- nant this year Mir. Lynch says he cares nothing for MT. Fogers personal attack upon him. but that the imputa- ltion of dishonesty on the part of the umpires cannot be overlooked. In d statement Issued today Mir Lynch says:
 As far as President Fogel's attack on the president of the National league is concerned I care nothing My 25 years record in baseball speaks for Itself This cowardIy attack on the honesty of the unpires and the game Itself is a different matter. however, and cannot be overlooked. I shall take ton. Regardless of whether MT. Fogel fore the board of directors of the Ma fional league which has sole jurisdic- Ition. Regardless 0 fwhether MT. FogeI | has financial interests In the Phladel-' phia club or not, he is the president l of that organization and the charges
 he makes can only be handled by the league itself'
 Cincinnati September 3o.-President August Hermann of the Cincinnati
 Ball club of the National league an-
 nounced today that he had received notice from President Lynch of the National league that he had suspended Second Baseman Egan of the Cincn- | natl club for three days and Umpire | Irfnneran for the rest of this season This. it is said, was the result of Herr mann's protest against Finneran order- ing Egan from the field in the game in Chicago Friday, Both were charged with having used improper language on the playing field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
TRACK IS FAST
 AT WAUWATOSA

Wauwatosa, Wis. September sO.- Flrst real evidence that the track over which the Vanderbilt cup races are to be run Is fast was seen today, when Teddy Tetziaff completed a lap in GIT minutes, or at the rate of 79H miles an hour. The worlds road race record at santa Monica was 7sIa miles an hour Other drivers who took practice spins included Bragg, Bargdoll, De- Palma and Wishart. The Vanderbilt cup race is scheduled for Wednesday, the Pabst and Wisconsin challenge trophy races Thursday and the Grand Prix on Saturday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
AMERICAN LEAGUE
STANDING
Athletics Win

Philadelphia, September 30.@The game here this season saw very poorly played game in which New York lost to the home team in II innings. the score being II to 10 Neither Bush nor Caldwell was effective and they were given poor support by their team mates, Philadelphia having eight err TOTS to five for Ney York. Collins scored the winning run on his double, an error by Paddock and single by McInnis. Covaleski pitched three in
 nings for the locals and allowed only one hit Score: R H I.. New York :. 030 200 050 00--1O 13 } Philadelphia .020 D32 300 01--1I 15 8
 Batteries: Caldwell. Schultz and Sweeney; Bush, Colvaleski and Lapp. Time 2:30. Empires Hart and Dineen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
ATHLETICS WILL
 AID FED SOX

Philadelphia, September s0.--When the Boston Red Socks come here this week to close the baseball season the home team expects to put the new pennant winners through course of practice rhat win help fit them for the worlds series. The Athletics having been through the fire Of two worlds series one of them with the New York Giants. are in q position to give Jake Stahls men many pointers. This they will do partly through their loyalty to their own league and partly be- cause James McAleer, president of the Boston Americans, managed the two teams that kept the Athletics on edge for their series against Chicago and New York. The Athletics will as far as pos. sble play the New York style 14N
 will try hard to win de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01

Turning from the field to the bat, We find the Giant outfield showing up better; so much better, in fact, that but for Speaker-how he does bob up they would have a wide margin in their favor
 Granting that the list of selected pitchers from each league are about equally effective, we are able to make some interesting comparisons.
 The table below shows the number of games, times at bat and runs and hits of each of the seven men.
 The record for the season of the four New York outfie1ders including Sep fap,har 12 is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
------~.ss ss-----=l EMANUEL LOBMAl DIES IN MONTGON

Montgomery, September 30.-(sA ,og, Emanuel Lobman, one of th -,es. known business men in Alabama anu for years associated with a prominent firm here. died this afternoon from paralysis. MT. Lobman was stricken with acute in- digestion while on a booster tour through south Alabama two weeks ago. He be- came paralyzed in his foot and 1t spread to other parts of the body.
 Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
Sox Get Another

Washington September 3o.-Boston defeated Washington today to , in the second of the last series of three games of the season between these teams. O'Brieh had the locals puzzled until the seventh. when. with his team leading by six runs, he slowed up and was hit hard. Engle was wild and in- effective. He retired after the sixth i'm ming and Washington used two recruit pitchers. A double by Stahl with the bases full and catches by Yerkes and LaPorte were features Score: R II .E Boston - OH oil 300-7 Washington ..... 000 100 202-5
 Batteries. O'Brien and Cady; Engle Boe hling, Gallia and Henry. Time, 2:20 Empires, Evans ,and Egan.
 second place in the pennant race, have but 306 bases on balls to their credit. Speak CT, Gardner and Hooper have walked to first base upward of 50 times each. How ever. the leading individual record for transportation to first in the American league is not held by. a member of the new champion aggregation. Rath, the 'cad fuan of the Chicago White Box, is the premier waiter in the league. with a record of s1 bases on balls this season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
Rosary Devotions at st. Paurs

The month of October being dedicated to the rosary. devotions consisting of the rosary, the litany of the Blessed Virgin and the benediction of the Blessed Sacra- ment wiN be held at St. Paurs church this evening immediately after the An gelus. The same service will be held ev- cry evening of the week throughout the month with the exception of Thursday evening. when the Holy Hour will be observed at 7:30 o'clock as usual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
Pirates Down Cubs

Chicago. September 3o.-Pttsburs batted the local pitchers all over the field today and won an easy game, 9. to ,. Hendrix held Chicago to five scattered hits. In the opening inning Byrne strained q tendon in tho foot sliding into the home plate and was carried off the field. Score: R. II F.. Chicago . 900 100 200--3 D 0 Pittsburg .. 1l0 200 011--9 1S ,
 Batteries: Cheney Toney, Powell and Archer. Yantz Hendrix and Gibson. Time, 200. Empires. owens and Bren- nan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01

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 Several Illuminating facts are dis closed here. Devo1D is seen to be Il dangerous man against right hand curve pitchers who depend ,on curve ball and a fast ball. he is practically valueless against a left handler or spit ter and a good run getter when once on the bases Becker hits his regular average which is high against all but the moist ball style of delivery; snod- grass cannot hit the good right hand- CT effectively but is strong against the southpaw. Murray drops from .270, his seasons mark, to .213 against the right hand twirler, increases his average a trifle when facing left handlers and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01

An average of .26s for 115 games with an average of 30 stolen bases per man is obtained and the impressive to- tai of 2.50 runs per game were scored. Nearly enough for a good pitcher to win with. This record was made against any and all of the National league pitchers. good. bad and indif- ferent.
 Facing the nine selected twirlers who have shown good form for at least part of the season; men more nearly of the class that will be met next week the record reads like this Group one, Alexander, Camnitz, Fromme and Richie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
NATIONAL LEAGUE
STANDING
Perritt Shows Form

St. Louis, September 30.-Berritt was steady after the third inning while his St Louis teammates hit F'romme at opportune stages and ran the bases to suit themselves, winning the sec ond game of the series from Cincinnati here thls afternoon by q score of 6 10 4 The locals fielding was excel lent Score: R. II E. Cincinnati .... 202 900 00o-4 I St. Louis ., 900 POI 30*-6 0
 Batteries: Fromme and Severoid; Per ritt and Snyder, Bliss. Time, 50 Um- pire. Rigler.