The Washington herald., 1911-10-02
Walker or cashonto Face Athletics in First Game Of Final Series
Athletics Here Today
In Final 1911 Series
Either Walker or Cashion in Box This Afternoon.
Other Gossip and Comment.

Connie Mack's champion Athletics
will wind up the local season here in
three-game series starting here this af-
ternoon, providing the weather holds
good. It is likely Cy Morgan Yill be in
the box for the Mackmen, while McAleer
will probably work either Cashion or
Dixie Walker.
Throughout the Eastern League the
critics in general declare that the good
pitching of George Mcconnell, as much
as the managerial ability of John Camel,
was responsible for Rochester's third
pennant That should be welcome news
to Hal Chase, of the Yankees" Big
George" goes back to the Hilltop in
1912. He was up here before in 1910, but
had little chance to display his pitch
ing ability. Stalings was forced to use
him at first base until Hal Chase re-
covered from an attack of smallpox.
Comiskey will have a chance toS'get
hack at Charlie Murphy in the Chicago
city championship series. The Cubs and
White Sox have met three times. In
the city title contests of 1905 and 1909 the
Cubs were easily the winners. These vic
tories, however, no more than square the
worlds championship, which the Sox
won from the Cubs in such unexpected
fashion in 1906.
Says the Philadelphia Record: Every
one who knows anything about baseball,
and a great many who know almost
nothing of the game, are attempting to
foretell the result of the coming worlds s
championship series. About half the num-
Der will guess right, and the others will,
of course, be wrong. In the two cities
most interested in the contests local pa
triotism will have much to do with the
predictions, for II is unreasonable to eX-
pect that any loyal Philadelphia will for
a moment admit that New York has any
thing on the Quaker City, while it would
be rank foolishness TO look for even ordi-
nary decency from a New Yorker when
discussing relative merits in which Phila-
delphia is concerned. Outside of Phila-
delphia and New York league preference
has much to do with the predictions. A
majority of the National Leaguers say
that the Giants will do to the Athletics
pretty much what they did in 1905 while
the stanch American League fans" are
telling how the Athletics will wipe out
that defeat by giving the New Yorks a
worse beating this year. These prejudiced
predictions are not worth anything to
anybody, and neither are the writings of
the baseball experts, who see games in
only one of the big leagues. The ball
players themselves are almost as mis-
leading, for, as a rule, they cannot hide
natural prejudice and generally side with
the league to which they belong. There
are exceptions to this rule, however, and
here the best tip that is available, out
side of the betting men, is secured.
After digesting the many predictions
and considering the source the Athletics
should be made a to 3 choice, pro-
viding nothing happens between now and
the opening game to handicap the teams
chances. The result really hinges on the
work Of the pitchers, and the team that
gets the best results from its boxmen will
win. Here is where the cold-bloded spec
Ulators, men who bet to win and not on
sentiment, figure that the Athletics will
show a decided superiority over the
Giants. Bender, Plank, CoombS, Morgan
and Krause, with Danforth and Martin
to fall back on, look better to them than
Mathewson, Marquard, Crandall, Wiltse
and Ames. Nothing short of the actual
test can tell if they are right.