Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07

nast two starts. Two home runs by
Prank Baker stopped us in 1911. We
simply threw away the series with
the Red Sox last fall Matty should
pave won three games and he didn't
Rin one.
4 Now that is what you call getting
the worst of the breaks. AS a usual
#thing luck just about balances in the
Pong run. We are overdue for a few
kmiles from the Pickle Dame" Per
4s0nally l do not care one straw
s whether or not american League"
4 luah prevails. We're simply going to
f trim those Athletics anyhow. / feel
4 il in my bones.
I'd Ike nothing better than to whip
&them single-handed. And I think I
n coul7 just about do it. too. I always
was pretty husky fellow. They talk
about Jack Coombs being an iron
man ! do not think he was ever a
hlt stronger or huslIier than ! am to-
pay. Take 1t from me, I'll be ready
70 toe the scratch any time McGraw
calls upon me. Pm willing to pitch
i me first four games if he asks me-
The Athletics are going to bump
INTO far tougher proposition than
hey encountered in 1911, I can tell
You We were a lot Of green and in
experienced kids then. Matty was
about the only one whose nerve had
ever been subjected to a Worlds Sc
RES test. Most of our boys stood up
nooly to their work. It was a far
closer series than many people imag-
Inc. We looked bad in only one game.
the last.
Admits He Was Ratified.
Now, do not know how the rest Of
the boys felt at that time. But do
know that II anybody ever had buck
lever" his name was Marquard. r
scarcely knew whether I was stand
ing on my head or my feet. To tell
YOU the gospel truth I was so ratified
couldn't get Chief Meyers signs.
crossed my old pal half a dozen times.
Just TO tip you off TO what a good,
game sport Meyers Is he finally in
SISTED upon catching me without sig
Now, against the Red sox last year
l was as cool as an iceberg every
minute. Will not deny that l had
Soine luck in those games Both
tli!ies l was fortunate enough to be
s.yeh bunch Of runs early in the
ray and l never had to extend my
self With half the announcement
dIong these lines Mattv would have
cantered in on the chin strap on all
'"[ee starts. But that's not the point.
q. wish to rea ssure well wishers Of
g.N Giants that my days of nervous
ness are past and gone forever. do
l'- mink that any one could accuse
ne or being a gutter" though they
lp say it about me when I was a
DThcA warmer Of the Giants. Now,
Why should have been nervous
ss-"4hSt the Athletics I can not tell. I
exactly the way I felt the first
.aF ] pitched at the Polo Grounds
e gay l Won the sobriquet OF "elev-
dollar lemon" It took
l'o Years to shake the nervous
y or that nightmare. The Phila-
'a episode, I am sure, was the
'.s- lniVer Of that sad affliction.
Can Beat Athletics.
"aen I say that I can beat the Ath-
'1Aes mean it. 1t is no braggadocio,
aer ] gave them the battle Of
1T lives in 1911, when l was blind
I'D nervousness. Then fuke home
YES my undoing. I say fiuke. for
nome run that decides a hard
Eat game is nothing more than
e. is, figure the percentage against
ii. happening and you will get
,a lFlft of my talk. Certainly |
al face Macks men with all the
''snaence in the world.
sure as the sky is above US we viii
- good this time if the boys hold
y their heads We can't do it. Of
1rSe, if we play the same kind Of
that we showed against Boston.
nj l think that experience taught
a lesson we are not likely to for
NE rest of our lives. Here is why
an so confident: We have a far