Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-23
CUBS WON'T HAVE A
C|NCH WITH ATHLETICS
American Leaguers Look Most For
-. midable to Many Base
Ball Experts.
. :.
COMPARISON OF TEAMS
'...'.'' PROVES INTERESTING
Chances Men Given Credit for PLAY.
ing More Inside Ball Than Rivals. !.
Mack Has Best Pitchers.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
DETROIT, September 23-Its- all over
but the shouting in the 1910 worlds Sc
ries! Sweeping majestically onward in
brilliant marches Of triumph the Phfla-
delphia, Athletics and Chicago Cubs have
shattered the last existing doubts as to
their championship rights. In both the
American and National leagues pennant
honors have been nailed to the mast by
the most evenly balanced playing ma
chimes OF the age. From now on chief
interest In the major circuits will center
about the struggles for second place, with
the newly crowned monarchs resting cas-
lily and printing for the crucial combats.
The Mackmen of 1910 are a better, a
more polished set of athletes than the
team OF FIVE years ago, which made such
sorry showing against the Giants in
the series for the honors Of the universe
Quaker City fans this year have absolute
confidence in their representatives. in the
American League king row. and are GER
tain that the White Elephants. as they
are sometimes dubbed, will make better
showing against the Cubs, their world s
Outclassed by Giants.
Memories Of the drubbing administered
in 1905 still Turk within the minds of the
Macks and their constits. Back in those
good old days folks of the City Of Broth
erly Love imagined Harry Davis, Ralph
Orlando Seybold and the other hard-h
ting Mackmen would knock the curves
OF Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity
galley west. What transpired is still q
matter Of history. Davis was lucky, in
deed, to pole an average of 200: Seybold.
a terror to American League slab artists,
wound UP the series swatting to q mark
Of .11 ard the team registered three
In that engagement the Athletics
couldn't even sacrifice and only the mag
niflcent pitching Of Chief Bender and
Eddie Plank made the Pennsylvanians
look as II they were in the same class as
McGraw's terribles.
The Athletics have a reputation to re-
establish las worlds series contestants.
They were not overburdened with fight
and pep when they tackled the Giants,
but this year they look to be a more
aggressive machine. Their whole season
has shown them to be possessed of that
quality.
Since time immemorial it has been the
fashion prior to these title clashes to
harp on the individual strength OF the
opposing clubs, but there are other
factors as much II not more important.
Team work, team spirit. organization.
confdence-these are material qualities
which count quite az much as individual
effort and ability. -
Cubs Improve With Age.
Chances twice champions Of the sun.
moon and stars are credited with being
and are the smoothest working base ball
machine in the country.
Their long years of service may hot
work to their advantage. The quality OF
youth, dash and abandon may be bene-
at to the Macks. for there are more of
them than on the Cubs team to whom
playing in the worlds series will be q new
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