Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-22
EVERYBODY GUESSING WHEN
WORLDS SERIES WILL END
Athletics Grounds Under Criticism, and
League Legislation May Correct Evil
bv Next Season.

| there is a whole lot of honor and more
money at stake. and the result is that
| some OF the players go through the series
In highly nervous condition. l must
say, however, that while this has been
true of some, ii has not been so with the
pitchers who have worked in the three
games playe1. Mathewson. Marquard,
Plank. Coombs and Bender seem to have
improved under the strain. and every one
OF them has given a mastery exhibition.
Ihey seem to feel that everything de-
Ponds on them, and the result is that
they are at their best. This. of course.
may be made possible by the fact that the
Datters are overanxious and because of
thiS are nervous at the plate. thus giving
the pitchers further advantage. You see,
When lot OF players are primed for a
series like this. they give il too much
thought, for they overestimate what is
expected of them
If there has been any doubt as to Jack
Barry stading among the ShortstOpS of
the country, he is sure to ablish him
self as one of the greatest the game has
developed in the present series. Barry
does not belong to that element which
under strain. He has already convinced
New York patrons of the game that he is
Fietchers superior and the chances are
that before the series is over he will have
borne out the prediction made by Frank
Chance last fall that he was the greatest
shortshop in the country
Not unless some one chloroforms the
omcials of the Washington club is there
any great danger of George Mcbride
figuring in deal for George StovaI. AS
stated in these columns several times be-
fore, Stovall is not considered for the
management of the Nationals. and surely
no sane base ball man would trade a
shortshop of McBride's ability for a first
baseman like StovalI. The fact that the
Cleveland team finished third in the race
and thereby surprised lot of people. Is
not attributed to any special ability that
StOvall may have as manager Any
team with strong young pitching staff
and couple of batters with averages
over the 400 mark should cut figure in
any race and StOvall therefore is not given
the credit that some of his friends would
like t. drop into his apron. Washington
of course, needs a manager. but it needs
matt of more experience than has
StOvall Under the new system of trying
to BULL up winner by means Of filling
as many positions possible with young
sters. man of experience who knows a
ball player when he sees one and has the
ability to teach the green hands, is needed |
In Washington and such a man the club |
officials will try to secure. Jennings, of |
course, would have first call for various |
but there is hardly one chance in |
a hundred of his coming to the Nationals. |
The man next in line is Billy Murray and |
should he fail to accept the job Clark |
Griffith might be considered. The sign
ing Of Griffith might not be popular for the |
reason that he made a failure in Cincin- |
natl and yet Griffith built up a team of |
youngsters there which did it's best work |
during the closing weeks Of the season /
when 1t became more matured. Fans are |
not always patient with a manager who |
tries to get winner from the younger |
element and this is what Griffith offers as |
an excuse for his apparent failure In Gin |
cinnati. Present indications are that |
neither Mcbride nor Schaefer is being |
considered for the position. Both would |
be experiments to begin with. What is |
more, the appointment of Mcbride would |
not be popular while there is some doubt |
if Schaefer would take the place seriously |
enough.
Lawrence Phillips. the announcer Of the |
club, who has been acting
in a similar capacity during the worlds
series games, has made a good impress
sion with the crowds. Phillips, who has
given his work every attention, has made
II possible for every one Of the thousands
who have witnessed the games to hear
him plainly, and the scheme of having
an official announcer has become decided
ly popular with patrons of the worlds
series.
1t is really abhurd to believe than any
pitcher. be he ever so effective. can pitch
against Frank Baker with the assurance