Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-05
llTTOW yuh bettin' on the
II seerez?"

This bromidiom calls
the debating club to order on the
street corner. In the office of any
place where men can pause for a
moment The affirmative grabs off
a generous allotment of time for
the opening argument and leads off
with, for instance, this harangue
They're all taking Sox. just like
they all talked Jeffries. And the
Giants are going to surprise them,
just like Johnson did. And III tell
you why, Joe Wood is Bostons
one best bet. II he's off color it's
good night, Sox! Now, listen. You
know what winning nineteen
straight did to Vanguard. And
Joe Wood has just finished the
American leagues record run.
Well, the nervous strain has got
him so wabbly that
SO wabbly that the Yankees
hammered him for a total Of two
hits in the first game he pitched
after his run was broken. He's so
wabbly that his Jump ball wabbles
out of the way when a batter wings
at it. Yes, he's gone so far back
that they would begin making hits
off him if they could only see the
ball when he shoots it over"
That's all right The Yankees
are a bunch of dubs. I tell you
that record Of Woods has put him
on the blink for the series. As
was going to say, in a short series
it's all in the pitching, and you've
got to have men you can depend
upon. The Giants can depend on
Mathewson and Tesreau. Tesreau
is the sensation of this season. He
has got better every day since
spring, and the way he's going now
they can never stop him. And
Mathewson is the greatest pitcher
in the world"
Maybe he is, considering what
he has done in the past. But what
a man used to be able to do won't
count in deciding the baseball
championship Of the world"
"All right. You say Matty used
TO be the greatest Well, he's as
good today as he used to be and
the figures show II. What do you
think Of that? Last year he won
"a games and lost II. This year
he has won % and lost 13-iust the
same percentage this year he
has had the greatest control in the
world, avera ging less than one base
on balls TO a game, and, moreover.
he has had more games kicked
away by bad support this year than
ever before"
It's Up to the Pitchers.
The debaters are certainly right
about the importance of pitching
in a short series like the great
classic, The death dealing war club
of John Franklin Baker reIegated
box work TO the shadows last
year but most worlds series are
like those which were featured by
the twirling Of Bill Deneen, Nor
deCai Brown, Jack Co0mbs. EG
Walsh. Christy Mathewson and
Babe Adams. Mathewson is the
greatest Of all w. s. heroes. He
set a mark for them all to shoot
at when he won three straight
shutout triumphs over the Athlet-
les in 1905. He had the White e.
ephants eating out of his great
right paw He beat Eddie Plank
80 In the first game. trimmed Andy
Coakley 80 in the third game and
blanked the great redskin, Chief
Bender, 20 in the fifth and deCid-
ing game Of the series.
Bedient. who win likely be
stahl's third choice in the box. with
Joe Wood and Ray Collins, makes
mighty strong looking triple alu-
ance, but mighty strong" describes
New York's slab squad, TOO
There is no gainsaying the fact
that Mathewson is still the steady.
reliable boxman he was Of old, and
that he is pretty certain TO pitch
at least one brilliant game against
the Sox The best pitcher in the
world would have his hands full
opposing Jeff Tesreau. and then
there Is Rube Marquard II is far
from impossible that the holder Of
the worlds record for conseCut:ye