The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-31
BASEBALL.
Cranks Trying TO Figure Out the Boston
PittsDurg Series.

| Possibly the baseball cranks are counting
their chickens before the Matching in figuring
how the Boston Americans and Pittsburg
Nationals will come out in the worlds cham
pionship series Neither has won this years
pennant in their respective leagues IA vet. but
the outlook that caCh will do so Ia altogether
favorable. and any way. speculation affords all
sorts of interesting conjecture. Probably in
most of the guesses deductions will be drawn in
which the wish will have fathcred the thought
The teams on paper and compared individ-
ualy present such n difficult question to
determine beforehand that one il quite
excusabe for arriving at conclusion in ac-
cordancc with his sympa thies. That is as
good u way ms any Of settling the question in
advance. Baseball especially in short s"'ies
is so largely determined by unforeseen hap
penings thai arts" on tn" field that speculation
Is useless save rs a harmless occupation,
The pitching strength and batting strength
and fielding strength Of the two teams nave
satisfactory results. Their" has been "A
tendency to rate LnchanCc much below Brnns-
field az first baseman. but in reality there
image at first base. particularly when he
partakes of the speed Of the rest Of the team,
make ns many effective plays as his rival,
though man for man he does not impress
one as favoratly as the other man. most
notably probably. in stiGl, work. The speed
and clockIike precision of the rest of the Bos-
ton nt1ed has been shown In this city by
the Pittsburg inheld. In theontfeld the
Pttsburg trio appears to he one that covers
more ground than the Boston trio, Where
Boston has one Stahl. PittsburC has a Beau-
mont and Clarke. and in getting the ball
back from Tn" outer garden. mailing men at the
plate and preventing the annexation of extra
bases Pittsburg looks to be more pToftcient.
Philippe, leevpr and Dohrny en- one side
would probably oppose Young, Dlnhen nm
Hughes on the other. There is mere speed
on the Boston side. but no more brains or
pitching craitinrss., As n second string,
for emergencies Gibson and Winters look
TO be more reliable than Veil, Falk"nburg,
Sc, They are more seasoned. Hard and
skillful bntterS are 10 be found on both sides
to call ont all the cunning of the pitchers.
I'm distance hitting. often an mportanntrnctor
the teams are about equal with the Wagners,
teaches. Beuumouts. Fr"emans Doughcrtvs.
ing the ball to first Pittshurg looks the spryer.
There nls0 is baSerunning TO be considered.
Here the catcher comes into prominence. and
so far Rs personal observation counts Criger
Of Bos on with his quick and accurate throw
ing. turns runners back oftcner than the
Pittshurg bnckstops.
II is worthy OF note that in its respective
ing low scoring by opponents than has any
Of its associate teams To date each has
won more Shut-out games than any other
associate team The Boston have white
washed opponents seventeen times and the
Pittsburgs fifteen times. This gives an idea
of how strong each Ia. compared to other
teams in each league in pitching and
the game there is no more assurance of .
one sided series than of a close series OF con
tests. Locally the chief hope Is that game
or two will be played here.