Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-19
NEW CONDITIONS
IN WORLDS SERIES
Veteran Cubs Meet Newly Devel-
oped Team of Stars in the
Athletics.
CHANGE FROM OTHER
YEARS MOST WELCOME
Connie Mack Has Only Four Of His
Stars Left Over, While Chance
Has Veterans.

When the Athletics of the American
Leaxue and the Chicago Cubs OF the Ma
tional League clash in the worlds cham
pionstip series, a meeting which seems to
be assured by reason OF the apparently Sc
cure hold these teams have IN their re-
spective pennant races, there Is one inter-
estinx feature in connection with the
series which will no doubt attract the at
tention Of every close student of the ma
tional pastime. This Is the meeting of
team of veterans, who have won four
league pennants and two worlds cham
pionships In Ave years. and team OF
youngsters and veterans who. under the
masterful guidance Of one OF the clever
est leaders the game has ever produced.
have been developed into a pennant win
ner In two years.
OF the players composing the team
which Connie Mack has landed at the top
Of the American League race this season
only four were with the Athletics when
they won the pennant in 1902 That year
the Athletics lined up as follows: Hart
sci, left field: Fultz. center field; Seybold,
right field; Davis. first base; Murphy. sec
ond base; Lave Cross, third base; Monte
Cross, shortstop; Schreckengost and Pow
ers catchers: Waddell. Plank. Hastings.
Wilson and Mitchell. pitchers.
In l6UO, WHSh Tic <AthICtiSS ~ ONSht
their second American League pennant to
Philadelphia, the team was composed
mainly OF the same players. Briscoe
Lord played center field that year instead
of Dave Fultz. while Bender and Coakley
were members of the pitching staff That
year the Athletics engaged In the worlds
series with the New York Giants. pennant
winners in the National League, and were
defeated. four games to one. mainly
through the wonderful pitching Of Ma
thewson.
Since that time Connie Mack has been
busily engaged In building up another
pennant winner. and this season finds the
Athletics once more at the top OF the lad
many experts to be the best team that
has ever represented the American
League and one which Is capable of
bringing back to the American League
have been in the possession Of the Ma
tional League since 1907, when the Cubs
won from Detroit.
The Athletics Of 1910 are practically
new team to the one which met the Giants
in 1905. and much faster. stronger and
more evenly balanced than either OF the
teams which won the American League
pennant in 1902 and 1905. The infield con-
tains only one veteran, Harry Davis. who
was q member Of the 1902 and 1905 teams.
and whose ability as player and lead
er of young players has been big factor
In winning another pennant.
Eddie Collins, Jack Barry and Frank
Baker are stars who have been devel-
oped by Connie Mack In the last two
years. Collins has been with the club
longer than Barry and Baker. but 1t was
not until last year that he became a reg
ular fixture at second base, having been
tried at shortstop. Barry also had a trial
in 1905. but won his regular berth along
with Baker last year.
The outfied is a mixture Of veterans
and youngsters. with Murphy. Hartsel
and Lord members OF the team who
played with the Athletics In the world S
that year and since then has been to the
minors, but returned. Oldring is not
youngster, but has not been playing
steadily until this year. having played in
only eighty-nine games In 1900.
The battery department. which Is al
most sure to play a principal part. in de-
Gliding the worlds series this year. Is al
most entirely new. OHly Plank and Ben
der remain Of the pitchers who were with
the Athletics In 1905. while the catching
stan Is composed OF players who have
come to the team in the last two years.
Pitted against the recently developed
team of the Athletics win be practically
the same team that has represented Chi
| cago In the National League in the past
| Ave years and which has won four league
pennants and two worlds championships
IN that period. In 1908. when the Cubs
won the National League race and were
defeated by tho White Sox four games TO
| two in the worlds series. the Cu6S'
regular line up was: Hoffman, center field !:
Sheckard. left field: Schultz. right field:
Chance. first base; Steinfeldt. third base;