The Washington times., 1906-10-15
NOiSOme Adulation of Ma
tionaI League Should
Cease Now.
FINE PITCHERS AND BATTERS
Worlds Championship Will Be Big
Help to Americans Next
Season.
By THOMAS S. RICE.

Worlds Champions" on the breasts
of the White SoX will be d big help
10 the American League next season.
All credit to the weak-hitting team
which downed an aggregation Of equal-
Is scientific opponents who had IL beat
a block IN batting
/ acknowledge the coin. / could not
see for the life of me where the Sox
had any license 10 get that worlds flag.
The dope did net point in that direc-
ton. even with the good pitching STAFF
af the command of Fielder Jones. es-
pecialy after Dr. White, a main rel-
ance. had been pounded out OF the box
On his nrst appearance. Anyhow, / am
not alone-theTe We're few baseball writ
ers who did not think that the Cubs
would win out. and those who did
not make such a prediction were prob
ably writing more from prejudice and
personal feeling than a study of The
ngUres.
American Stronger League.
The White Sox had the hardest kind
of "a time winning the American League
p,nnaut. The Cubs had a runaway
lace in the National and won more
games than had ever been known in
The history Of major league ball What's
the answer? Easy. The American
League must be about forty per cent
stronger and better balanced than the
National, q contention which ITS dd-
mirers have supported for the last two
years with many arguments. and now
they have the satisfaction OF seeing lt
proved IN an actual playing test.
The fact that the hard-hltung Cubs,
who were able 20 play ducks ana
brakes with the National League pitch
ID Fs.
against the SOX. leads inevitably TO
The conclusion that ON the whole the
American League pitchers are better
than those Ia the older organization.
What Series Shows.
That the Sox are not the goods in
hitting w.s shown by the fact that IN
the American they batted even lower
than Washington or. in other words,
last. and had 10 rely Oh every other
feature of baseball besides the stick tC
land victories. on the other hand. the
Cubs. although they were fun OF tricks
and teamwork, We're able 10 hammer
the best -wtTlerS IN the National. ana
got their flag by slugglng.
1t has been claimed by Jealous roOters
for the American League that II some OF
the pitchers in the National VINO nave
made such great records in the past two
years had been in the American they
would not have had such easy picking.
The argument was that the average
ability with the bat In the younger
league was higher thau in the older.
and also that the reason the figures did
not show this was because this aptness
with the stick was offset b. an even
greater superiority on the part Of the
American slahmen.
Not a Fluke Triumph
Comiskey's braves msde thirty-nine
Il Pc
championship, as opposed 10 thirty seven
BY the Cubs. which is not great diff
ference, but enough to indicate that the
SoX were travelling even with the slug
ging Cubs, champions of the National,
while IN their own league they We're de-
Cisively outbatted. Six games are fair
test Of the relative merits or TWO teams,
and II cannot be claimed that a fuke
placed the laurel on tie brow Of the
American League leaders.
One great effect Of the victory of the
SoX should be damming OF Che fOw OF
gush In the New York afternoon papers
about the New York Giants, and how
each and every member of that team
has all the geniuses history has ever
known looking like a baby with a rattle
IN every department OF human endeavOr.
Probably nothing gained the White SOx
more supporters in the East than this
noisome adUlatiOn Of the gang OF UNI
plre-batters which constituted the
GIANTS Tor II was the hope OF the fans
that the SoX would trim the National
penHant winners and knock the under
pinlng from the swell-headed. Over-esti-
mated collection McGraW had around
him.
Dam the Gush
The methods Of some OF the men who
devoted themselves to writing about the
Giants we're almost childish. and 1t
was tho pitiful attempt TO extenuate
and smooth over every outbreak Of
rOWdism and Incompetence which turn
ed the heads OF the mental lightweights
IN that club and caused them TO play a
miserable second 10 the Cubs
Now that the Giants have finished
mile behind the Cubs. who. i'm their
turn. have been SOJndly trOunCed bv