The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-09-03
CUBS AND ATHLETICS PICKED TO PLAY
THE WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
Member of the Chicago Team Says Pttsbug Is the Club His
Outfit viii Have to Beat-Confident Mack viii Take
Honors Away From Hughie Jennings in the
American League

pen to be drawing salary for playing
with the Cubs, but 1t is my honest
belief that we are going to cop the
pennant In the National league and 1t
is my opinion that Connie Macks
bunch Is certain to land the rag IN
the American league.
"Can we beat the Athletics? I'm
surprised that you should ask such
| q question. We can beat any team
that ever played baseball. It's true
| the Sox trimmed US once, but that's
a story that hasn't been fully told, 30
| I'll not attempt to explain It They
couldn't do it again.
1.-THE Detroit bunch will be lucky
IL 1t finishes in second place this year
and that outfit known as the Boston
Speed Boys is going to give the Attn
letics run for their coin, but feel
sure that Connie Mack will land in
front and the Chicago and Philadel-
phia fans will get to see the battle
for worlds championship honors.
81 know the race is by no means
over and we have a lot of games to
win, but with Reulbach, Overall and
Brown back In condition we have
twirling staff that is second to none
and the rest Of the team is as good as
any other. Some of the others have
Individual batters who lead US, but az
q team they don't class.
"rm looking for the Giants to blow
up pretty soon and believe it will be
the Pirates who will be at our heels
when the National league race Is
finished. The Pittsburg bunch seems
10 have shaken that slump and they
can be expected to come fast from
now on. Some say it was because OF
the failure Of the club management
10 pay promised bonuses that the
Pirates didn't play up to last sea-
sons form, but don't believe 1t.
Every team has It's bad days and /
think 1t was just a natural fall down
that put the Pirates down in third
place. I'll bet they beat New York
out Of second position. See If I'm not
right. While I'm confident the Cubs
will win anyway, I'd rather be playing
against New York than against Fred
Clarke's crew"
Hughey Jennings remarks that two
seasons ago, when the Tigers started
on their first eastern trip. they were
absolutely In last place. They were
.276 percentage points behind the
Athletics. They were playing sand
Tot ball If sand-lot ball was ever
played. Quoting the manager: i
was almost In despair and verify be-
neve that the only reason was not
driven out of Detroit was that the
fans were charitable enough to give
me the credit for winning the pennant
the year before. Well, sir, we started
out on the road, and when we came
back we had wiped out all but Is OF
those awful .276 percentage points.
We had played 2s games and had won
30 of them, and it wasn't long until
we were at the top. You know the
rest
II is an odd fact that the baseball
teams representing leading cities in
the United States are seldom called
by their proper names. When, fans
are talking baseball they rarely refer
60 John McGraw's great team as the
New York Nationals, but affectionate-
" cling to the time-honored name
"Giants." This is the case practically
all over the country, and the reasons
for It are interesting With two ball
teams in a major league city 1t is
easier to distinguish between them by
using nieknames than lacking on the
name Of the league which each repre-
sents Hence we have the Giants"
representing the metropolis in the
National league and the Highland
ers" or Yankees" doing the same in J
the American league.
In the old days, say twenty years
ago, the same practise prevailed, but
not exactly for the same reason, as |
two clubs in single city, barring |
Philadelphia, could not live The New
Yorks were first nicknamed the |
'tGiants" in those days because the |
players were all big men. Buck Ew-
ing, Tim Keefe, Roger Conner, Bill |
Brown, George Gore, Ed Crane, Jim
" hOuTkS anu Mike 1l6Eudu were SIX" |
footers and powerfully built. The
Brooklyns were called the Bride
grooms" because a majority of them
had just been married The Chicagos,
under Arson, were known as the |
white Stockings" for the reason
that they wore hose of that color, and |
the st. Louis Browns under the lead I
ership Of Comiskey were similarly
named. So were the old Cincinnati |
Reds, while all the Boston teams were
known popularity as the 'Beaneaters"
The CleveIands, with Pat Tebeau
at the helm, were dubbed "The Spi-
ders," as some of the players were
slightly built, and had thin legs. The
old Detroit champions were always
called THE Wolverines" and the
team bore the name of
Smoky City" and Pirates from time
The Washingtons were
hailed everywhere as THE Senator's"
while in Quakertown the Phillies and
the Athletics were the same old