The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-05
ALL READY FOR
WORLDS SERIES
NATIONAL COMMISSION MEETS
TO-DAY TO ARRANGE ScHE-
DULE-BOTA TEAMS
LOOK STRONG.

The national baseball commission
meets at Cincinnati today for the pur-
pose Of arranging the worlds series
schedule and naturally the interest of
the fans throughout the length and
breadth of the country is conferred in
this all important climax of the base
hall season. New YorR's victory over
Brooklyn yesterday cinchcd the league
and with that result van
ished the hopes Of many of the local
fans who would liked 20 have witness
ed the games, but who viii not be able
to make the trip to New York but who
would have found IT possible to go to
Chicago.
That the games will be pitchers bat
ties is the opinion Of local fans, who
have studied the situation. Coombs,
Plank, Bender Morgan and Krause
probably will bear the brunt for the
American League champs and for the
Giants. Marquard. Mathewson, Gran
DALI Wiltse and Amcs. Marquard is
by long odds the pick Of that bunch OF
beavers and his record shows II. Ma
thewson is fully as good as Coombs
and on recent form neither has much
to brag about Morgan and Ames are
uncertain children, too good to be true
one day and too bad to be tolerated the
next time out. Plank looks to be the
best of the Athletic crowd and right
now is probably almost the equal of
Marquard. Yet after all it may be
Coombs and Mathewson who win he
the old reliables and turn the tide of
victory for their respective teams.
Neither of the prospective pennant
winners has had a whole lot to beat
this year. Detroit has made about the
same fight i'm the American that Chi
! cago has made i'm the National and
has been easy picking about as often,
save for the spring squirt, which was
made possible by the work Of recruit
pitchers and The general dcmoraliza-
ton of Cleveland and the Sox coupled
with the chronic weakness Of st. Lou
is. Pittsburg has been an in-an1-outer
all season no better than Chicago de-
spite the fact that the latter were more
often Smoky City victims than vice
versa.
But it should not be forgotten that
in the American league Cleveland Cho
last of the season) and New Yorl;
all season. have been stronger than
in former years and that in the Ma
tional league Philadelphia and st
Louis have been worthy focmen, botl
| no. ,f,i
put their hustling catcher managers
out of the game Consequently II viii
he the contention of some good judges
that while Pittsburg and Chicago. De
troit and Cleveland have been easy
picking for the leaders. there has beer
moro trouble along down the line THAI
in former years the tail-enders of thu
first division ana certain second diyi'
sion clubs having been able To do NOR,
damage To pennant aspirations thar
usual.
That does not alter the fact that tn
present leaders Of the two leagues hav
sluggcd their way To tho front The.
have, IT is true, won many games tina
were tight fits. but in the main the,
have been forced to rely upon thei
hitting prowess and that is prccisol,
what they will have to do I'm the world
series.
Comparison. or attempt at Il, woul'
be futile. There Is no sure means o
knowing what the relative strength o
the pitchers in the two rival league
really is, hence no one can tell whethe
the Giants or the Athletics are tn
Jcst hitters. But this is certain: Tha
through the season, save i'm rare In
stances, both teams have been abb
20 do lot of hard hitting. And the
have done II against some of the hes
1 pitchers that over played professions
ball a short series will find some q
the sluggers standing on their heads
But both teams can hit, II they arc o
their proper stride,
In the field. there Is little to choos
J between McGraw's bunch and Mack'i