The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-13
In it,
See Themselves RiYaling Cubs
for Championship.
With October Comes Great In.
terleague Series.
ARE SEEKING RECORD.
Connie Mack's Men to Pass
American Standing.
Team Already SCATTERING Fond
est Presidents.
ARE SEEKING RECORD.

Philadelphia, Sept. 13.-With the PEN
nant assured the aim of the Athletes
Is now to beat the American league
record for number of games won, SO b.
Detroit in 1900, and then land the
words championship, by trimming the
Chicago Cubs. The outlook is good for
both propositions, and when it is all
over and the highest honors in base
ball have been won, the enthusiasts
can be excused If they insist on brand
Inc the combination as the best ever in
the history of the game in this city.
To be sure this claim will be disputed
by some of the old timers, who remem-
Der the teams that have gone BEFORE
including not only the two other WIN
ners that Connie Mack has sent over
IN the American league, but Billy
SharsiEs Champion Athletics OF 1883
and also the original Athletics which
won the baseball championship OF lSl1-
Then, too, a comparison must pc nndoe
with the many good teams which nave
represented this city under the name
az the Phillies, for while they were
never guilty of winning pennanr'
some of them have looked like cham
pions and wero unQuest1onaoly strons
baseball machines. But not forgeLtins
past. a pretty good argument can ps
put to show that none OF them hao
ANYTHING on the present Athletics.
OF course there have been players
who were famous IN those bygone days,
who could they be rejuvenated, would
strenrfhen the present Athletics
noticeably such pitchers as Ferguson
and Waddell, such catchers as Glenn
ents and Robinson. or even Stars SUCH
a. I.adoie, Delahanty and Stovey; out
taken team for team, managers anu
oil that bunch of hustlers out at
STvyenty-first and Lehigh this season
would ask no favors of any OF tnenl'
Mack is still at his best as mdnageI'
nrobablv a little better than ever pc
fore. since he is the kind that never
49,. learning. each years experience
adding something Of value TO Nun IN
Ne chosen calling, while his players
constitute as nicely rounoeu ouI O'bii
team as is often gotten tosetnel.
IT is a team where stars are iackIn :.
hTt where good ball players VINO help
one another may be found IN apun.
dance There is just enough seasoned
material distributed among the youaS Z
blood to make the team paldhce' W.
tha result that the team as a Wnole
,1aver knows when it is beaten. IL is .
hand of pinch hitters with nary quI:-
tor in the whole company. All amer
can league presidents are pelng shal'
tered by the present jug naluleo ap
nearance of the pennant race Lnt
kkthIatics being SO far out in front tha'
tbere seems no doubt as to the ma
resl,It And this, too, with 20 games
Vet TO play, nine at home ana 10 OF
other grounds. Two of the latter ar
at chicago. both of which prooaoI!
will be played off, so the team mas ON.
70 win half of the contests yet to com
to score its Tooth victory. AS IVO WIZ
wiz take the pennant, it may be ina
fhe final ending of the race may Sc
the leaders punched. in true American
league style. A. ,os;
4ion of runner up are now so closer
matched that a shift in position oc
c11rs every few days, and IL that ease
nm that SO many look for on the part Q
fba Athletics naterializes, there ma
be four closely punched clubs at IN
end. After two more games VII
washington here, the Athletics star
on their last swing around the west
ern circuit, returning home on seq
fernber 90 to meet Boston ana Me-
york. and winding up the season
october 8 with a double heaoer I
washington. Then will come 1e'
davs' rest preparatory to meeting tn
national league winners Tor tn
worlds championship. The Cubs al
lust as sure of the National pennant 6
fhe Athletics are OF the American,
chicago and Philadelphia can now [
named as the battle grounds Tor II
great interchange series in OCTOBER.