The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-13
SERIES ABOUT TO START Will Be
THE GREATEST IN HISTORY Of GAME
neither TEAM
HAS THE EDGE
Will Be a Battle Between the
Lean Leader and Little
Napoleon

New York, Oct. 13.-The worlds
championship baseball series which
opens tomorrow marks the. climax Of
interest in the great American game
OF baseball. The championship con.
test comes every year, but Is ever new
In the tntnse excitement over the cru
cial series. Last year Philadelphia
championship storm. the Philadelphia
Athletics of the American league WIN
ming the coveted title.
With the worlds pennant still fly
home at Shibe park at Philadelphia,
and with another American league
flag wreshly O Connie Mack and
his Philadelphians now meet John ].
McGraw and his Giants ~ the Nation
al league. 1t Is the second time that
these two generals have clashed over
the same great issue. In the war of
1905 McGraw won four of the five bat
ties. and thereby brought to New
York a worlds pennant.
Seasoned by six years more experi-
ence in the g%eneralship of their for
midable baseball forces, these two
baseball leaders now meet again for
the championship struggle. Two more
divergent types than McGraw and
Mack cannot be picked in the base
ball world.
Connie Mack.
Cornelius McGillicuddy, so named
at birth. but rechristened by the fans
as Connie Mack" has been called
the wizard of baseball" because of
his skill in developing seemingly in
ferior talent into the superior player.
Since he organized the Philadelphia
club eleven years ago he has turned
out four champion teams in the
American league and has led his men
close to the front ranks in the league
every season but n His career has
been, perhaps. the most successful of
Sitting back away from the dust of
battle, the cool and crafty chief with
pencil and score book in hand plots
out the progress of the engagement
and only occasionally amends the or
ders he gave his men before he sent
them into the field.
Muggsy McGraw.
McGraw, known to fandom as the
Napolenoic leader OF the Giants" has
York and one world series. Since
1903 his team has never finished be-
low third place in the National league.
AS a big league player he is a famous
product of the old Baltimore Orioles
of the National. league. When the
club broke up after the season OF
1902 he came to the metropolis az
manager of the Giants. He is. and
always has been. a typical player and
leader of the old fighting school whose
slogan is Rush in and win"
Whether McGraw can bring his
men back to the world-beating class
or must let the Mackmen possess the
big flag for a second successive sea-
son. depends in some part upon some
of the veterans who won for him the
wal of 1905.
By the rules governing the world
series each Of the leaders is allowed
to enlist twenty-one men eligible al
participants in. the struggle. The
choice this veal has fallen to the fol.
lowing men:
New York-Ames, p, Becker, utili.
ty, Crandall. p, Doyle, 3D.. Devore
IT,. Devlin. utility. Drucke. p, Fletch.
err. S., Herzog, 3D.. Hartley. c., Lat.
ham. utility, MrGraw. mgr, Meyers
c.. Mathewson, p, Marquard, p, Muir
ray. RI, Merkle. 1b.. ..Paulette. utili'
ty, S%nodgrass, CT, Wiltse, p. and VIII.
son. c.
Philadelphia-Baker. 3D., Barry, SIS.
Bender. p, Collins. 3D.. Coombs. p.
Davis. utility. Danforth, p, Derrick
utility, Hartsel, utility, Krause, p.
Lapp. c.. Livingston. c., Lord. IT,. Mar
tin. utility, Morgan. p, McInnis, lib.