The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-12
Rush in and Win" Always Me-
Graw's Baseball Tactics.
''Plan Your Own Game, Then
Play It," Mack's Policy. -; 49,
TEAMS "DOPE" EVEN
Forty-Two Men Are Eligible for
Worlds Series.
Catching Departments of Two
Teams Well Filled

New York. Oct. 12-The worlds
championship baseball series about to
begin marks the climax Of interest IN
the great American game of baseball
The championship contest comes every
year. but is ever new in the intense
excitement over the crucial series Last
year Philadelphia and Chicago were
the eenters of this championship storm.
the Philadelphia Athletics of the Amerl-
can league winning the coveted title
With the worlds pennant still flying
over their magnificent baseball home
ar Shibe Park at Philadelphia, and with
another American league flag freshly
won. Connie Mack and his Philadel-
phfans now meet John J. McGraw and
his Giants of the National league 1t IS
the second time that these two gen
erals have clashed over the same grea-
issue In the war of 1906 McGraw won
four of the five battles, and thereby
brought to New York worlds pen
nant.
Leaders Better Than Ever.
Seasoned by six years more expert
ence in the generaIship of their fornlid-
able baseball forces, these two baseball
leaders now meet again for the cham
pionship struggle. Two more divergent
types than McGraw and Mack cannot
contest between the two chiefs may be
summed up briefly as follows:
Mack vs. NfcGraw.
MACK.
Aged forty-nine.
Born in New England.
Tall and lanky.
Calm and dehberative.
Leads from the bench
Plans battle before game.
Never dons a uniform
Known as tactieian.
McGRAW.
Aged thirty-eight.
Born in New York state.
Short and chubby.
Quick and impulsive.
Always on coaching lines.
Resorts to quick judgment.
Always in ball toys.
Distinctly a strategist
And SO on, with finer distinctions
the divergence might be traced and
when the problem was finally worked
out it would be found that about the
only point of intersection in their
methods is success
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 inferior
talent into the superior player Since
he organized the Philadelphia. club
four champion teams in the American
league and has led his men close to the
front ranks in the league every season
but one His career has been, perhaps,
the most successful of any of the So
called bench managers. 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 orders he gave his men be
fr-- h sr,+.c oil
BIcGraw a Fighter.
McGraw, known to fandom as the
Napoleonic leader of the Giants" has
won three league pennants for New
York and one world series. Since 1908
his team has never finished below
third place in the National league. AS
a big league player he is a famous pro-
duct of the old Baltimore Orioles of the
National league. When the club broke
up after the season of 1902 he came to
the metropolis as manager of the
Giants. He is, and always has been, d
typical player and leader of the old
fighting school whose slogan is Rush
in and win"
Whether McGraw can bring his men
must let the Mackmen possess the big
flag for a second successive season, de
ponds in some part upon some of the
veterans who won for him the war of
1905
series each of the leaders is allowed to
enlist q men eligible as participants In
the struggle The choice this year has
n he folIoxxrir7cr