The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-12
That's Why Many Fans Are
Picking Athletics
to Win.
BOTH TEAMS CONFIDENT
Quaker City Enthusiasts Have
No Doubt of Favorites'
Ability to Win.

Ability to Win.
Il New York September 1..--While al.
most all the experts are picking
Chances Celebrated Chicago Cubs as
the winners of the series to be played
, with the Athletics for the honors OF
the universe next month, there are q
few persons close followers of the ma
tional game. who Insist taat MACK
Magnificents will vanuutsh the Ieaay
Il Bears. Those who are asserting that
4 the Shibe Parkers will capture the Sc
ries do not say the Philadelphia outhe
is a better one than the combination
/ commanded by Prank Leroy chance,
but they take the ground that the CUBS
will enter the series over-contident, JUST
as they did in 1906 against the Mh,.e
Sox Another argument advanced p3
the men who fancy, the American
| Leaguers is this:
An Eastern club. fighting Western
team for the worlds title, never mas
been beaten.
There have been three sets Of games
for the worlds championship between
Eastern and Western clubs. The frs5
was in 1855, when the Giants, managed
by Jim Mutrie and captained by Buck
Ewing, participated in ten clashes with
the st. Louis Browns, led by Charley
Comiskey The New Yorks won this
| series, six games to four, the Giants
taking things easily in the last two
contests and allowing the Browns to
beat them.
In 1890 the Brooklyn National League
club and the Louisville American AS
ISOLATION team hooked up in the worlds
series, honors between the two being
easy. The Superbas, then called the
Bridegrooms, won three battles, and
so did the Colonies. Tussle No. was
without result, and there was so little
interest manifested in the series that
the tie game never was played off.
The next set of battles between teams
| of the East and West for baseball's
| principal honors was reeled off in 1903,
with the Bostons representing tho
American League and the East, and the
| Pittsburgs appearing for the Nationa.
League and the West The Bostons
won five of the eight games. the P!-
! rates taking three out of the first four.
i So If baseball tradition is to be fol-
lowed. it looks as If the Athletics will
J have two flag-raising days in 19l1-the
American League gonfalon and the
worlds championship emblem.
Practically every person who is an
authority on baseball has spoken his
little piece and named the winner OK
the series. Byron Bancroft Johnson.
who receives $4,000 for looking after
the destinies of the American League.
and who would not be overpald If he
were paid double that sum. naturally
says the Athletics are going TO win y
majority OF the games from the Cubs.
4 hoy raS;I r,e ~,
National League. refuses TO tell which
of the teams he thinks Will be success
full in the coming series. AS Lynch
hasn't seen the Athletics play since
1908. and has watched the Cubs pas
time only about dozen times this
year. be is hardly qualified to speak
With authority on the subject All the
American League managers say the
White Elephants will trample on the
| Grizzlies. while every one OF the Ma
tioaal League leaders opines that the
Cubs will make the Shbe Parkers look
like a set of bush leaguers
majority OF the fan colony OF
Greater New York will pick the Cubs
the Mackmen TO win for the American
League the worlds title. This express
sion of opinion is not surprising, be-
cause the athletes from Cook county, 4
III. always play magnificently here,
while the men from Quakerdom only
occasionally reveal their true form in
Gotham.
This year the Cubs have INDUCED In
seven settos with the Giants on the
Polo Grounds. The Peerless Leaders
troupe landed six games and lost only
one. In every contest save the last
the Ch!cagoans played wonderful ball,
and on that day the Illini were handi-
capped by some Class pitching by
Floyd Kroh. who has since flown to
Louisville.
again this year. On their first appear
ance on the Hilltop the Phiiadelphfans
played fair ball but they did not shat
ter any records for bril!iancy last week.
When the. Mackmen were here in June,
however. they performed grandly, mix
ing things up and not sticking to the
old style attack of merely hitting the
ball out
Philadelphians are positive their rem
resentatives are going to humble the
naughty Westerners and say thar the
-iackmen OF 1910 are 20 per cent. bet
YET IMAM the team OF five years apo.
| which was beaten four games out of
nse ny inc Giants. scoring only three
ms ms ~ me entire series 1.-THE Cubs
nave no Mathewson," is the cry OF the
euaker City fans. "and our pitchers
are Just as good as theirs"
-, me Athletics will be Handicapped in
sne series by not having their left.
"ai'auts IN proper trim to send against
ne ca'casoans. It will be remembered
mat IN 1905, which was the last wear
an american League team won the
series for the worlds CHAMPIONSHIPS,
one Nicholas Altrock. who wasn't con-
sldered the greatest portsder in tn.
Junior organization pitched two games
LOT the White Sox against the Cubs.
having as his mound rival each timo
u NJ OrdeCal Reter Canaan nj al