The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-21
CUBS HAVE
 MET MASTERS
 IN MACK'S MEN Athletics as Developed by Brain jest of All Managers Greatest Team of Generation Chances Men Are Outclassed in All Departments of Game by Vigorous Youngsters
Especial from United Press.)

Chicago Oct. 21.-Chicago to-day is
 prepared for the worst, the fourth 1 successive defeat of her pet Cubs, by
 the a1l-conquering Athletics, in the worlds championship series Its the
 rudest awakening a baseball public
 ever had and, as for the Cubs them
 selves. the gloom that pervades their l camp is heavier than that which en-
 gulfed them four years ago when they | were trampIed upon by the White | Sox.
 | .The games played so far have re- l suited in such decisive victories for Connie Maclx's men that diagnosti- Cubs, can find absolutely nothing to say in their favor, when compared to | the Athletics. Team for team, man for man. and manager for manager. | the Cubs are better subjects for con- trast with the Athletics than for conn parison.
 It is too bad that the word tout classed'' has been so sadly overworked for. really, it is the one word that fit ly describes the Cubs status. If the worlds championship series thus far means anything. it means
 that the Cub 'fmachine,'' unlike that
 which for years has won the p1audits ter this season. It has demonstrated
 that it can't go the pace and how it
 managed to win the National league
 championship with such ease, is exp1i- lSe~0AC 14c1NA the other teams 1fbuffaloed'' by its for ner brilliant successes.
 The biggest surprises of the three games have been the failure of the
 Cubs reputed team work to show itself and the absence of that steadiness and
 confidence rborn of long association
 together of the players and their vic tories of the past.''
 The wise ones said that Chances
 men would play like a well-oiled ma cd m f1o adeIphians had the edge when it came to pitchers and that they might out bat the Cubs slightly, but that these
 more scientific play of the westerners. We'll, just look at the box scores and have a good laugh at the expense of the experts.
 It is the Cubs who have been rattled and done the t'bush league work, and the Athletics who have played steadily and set a new standard for both of- fensfve and defensive tactics.
 And when it comes to the managers, wise old Connie Mack must be ranked. temporarily at least. far ahead of the scrappy Frank Chance. The latter failed to read the handwriting on the wall, despite the fact that it was in letters as large as barn roof sign. This writing might have told him that his old pitching stars were unequal to the task and that his only hope lay in taking a chance with some of his younger players.
 yesterday. after the Colby college lad had done only fairly we'll in the game thing in baseball history that Mack knew his business.
 The series is Illustrating that there is
 fglory enough for a1l.'' if the Athletics win. In the first game it was Bender Thomas. Baker and Collins who star red. Tuesday, Davis. and Lord flash ed across the view and Collins repeat ed his brilliant work and yesterday, Coombs, Barry and Murphy played tremendously. Even substitute out fielder Strunk has come to the front called upon in the Athletics ranks has .sde1ivered.''
 Should the players share in to-days game amount to $15.000 Git was near for the players will reach STA, ,024. Should the Athletics win the series, their share will be more than s44.oooI
 The thick almost spongy gloom set tied over Chicago today was not all of the Cubs by Connie Mack's Ath- letics. At least a part of it was due to the weather conditions, which, early in the day, were such as to i'm dicate that the fourth game of the worlds series would not be played today.
 ing during the entire night, continued during the early morning hours, and it became evident that a desire to end the misery will be the only ground for sending. the teams onto the field this afternoon.
 During yesterdays contest the driz- gle softened the baselines and infield until the going became positively slop- DIV The conditions were much worse today and in the face of the weather mans forecast of warmer and fairer conditions tomorrow and the possi- bilities of a greater crowd, an an- nouncement of postponement was ex- pected.
 After having completely exhausted their excuses for the Cubs, Chicago l sporting writers today almost unani-Il rnousIy concede the championship to l the Philadelphians and the best any | of them hope for now is that the 1 Cubs may stave off utter rout and | prevent the Mack men winning in 1 straight heats. In view of the fact | that Bender has been slated to go | against the Cubs in the next set-to, | no one is willing to predict anything | other than another Cub slaughter, | with the possible exception of Chance. l With his entire pitching staff ridd1ed | and shown up like a bunch of bush | Ieaguers, and his former wonderful | team play a thing of the past, Chance | is still game and fighting, and mak- ing desperate efforts to convince his | comrades that they still have a fight | ing chance.