Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-10-09
CUBS MACHINE
Is TOO STRONG
CHANGES CREW HAS ADVANT-
AGE OVER ATHLETICS. SAYS
NEW YORK CRITIC.

New York, oct S.--A new York
sporting writer takes up the burning
question thus Throughout the coun-
try the question s: "Will the absence
of Johnny Evers from the worlds
series so cripple the cubs that they
will be unable to beat the Athletics
The writer is personally of the
opinion that the Cubs have too strong
a machine for 1t to he seriously
crippled by the absence of any one
man If the Athletics can beat the
Cubs without Johnny EVeE they
could beat them with him,
There is no doubling the fact that
Evers IS the best run maker on the
cub team, but he Is not nearly 50 good
Ia hitter as Zimmerman, the young
Bronx boy, who is to take his place.
Johnny Eevers is one of the brainiest
ball players in the business, hut he
is not the entire cub team by Jug
fun. The writer does not agree with
the many bugs who say that he is the
brains of the infield. Joe Tinker Is as
smart BAN player as ever trod a
diamond and he has never been given
all the credit that is due him, II
has SO happened that most of the spec
tacular plays made by the cub infcld
have fallen to Evers, but Tinker Is
the boy who has kept things steady a:
all times.
When They Face the veterans
The pitchers will tell you that he
Is their mainstay in times Of excite
ment The strength of the Athletics
is in their pitching STAFF. but it Is a
question whether they will be able to
be as effective against The veterans OF
the cubs as they have been against the
Young bltters in the American league.
No pitcher can waste balls ON the
cubs and get away with fl. They have
have got to put them over The Ath-
letic base runners also will he greatly
harassed by Johnny King Stein
feldt and Chance when they attempt
the hit and run play stolen bases, etc,
Killing has spent twenty years learning
how to break up base running plays
and this experience will be big fac
tor in the coming series.
on the base running proposition !
believe the cubs have IL on the Ath-
lctcs The fastest man on the Phila-
delpha team is Eddie Collins In
fact, they have no other player who
can approach him. Baker Is q very
clever base runner, but he Is no bet
ter than three or four men on the
Chicago club 1t would be pretty
hard to find a quartet Of base runners
who had any the best of Tinker, tIof.
man, Schultz and Zimmerman. Frank
Chance 9 also great base runner.
lie rs not so fast as some Of them
but his ability to get "A lead and his
Judgment of distance are really Won
derful
Depends on the Hitting
After ALL this series Is going to de-
pend largely on the hitting In q
Imatch game the cubs would outhit
| the Athletics, but there is always a
question as to what either of the
teams would do against pitchers they
had never faced before Coombs.
Plank and Bender are going to be the
main pitching dependence of the Ath-
letics, and they are corking good men
The writer looks to see Coombs give
the Cubs more trouble than the others.
There is no doubling the fact that
Bender Is "A wonderful tWirler, but he
Is not so tantai2ng TO strange club
as Jack Coombs I'm the early part
Of the season fewer runs were made
or Coombs than any pitcher IN either