Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-21
WORLDS SERIES WILL BE
PLAYED EARLIER NEXT FALL
Ban Johnson to Insist on Shorter Schedules.
Clark Griffith ozark Horse" as
Manager for Nationals.

7 they would be at sea should this condi
! ton prevail
Snodgrass, the Giants fielder has come
i'm for a whole lot of critic. SIN because OF
his spiking Baker i'm the game of Tues
day. and yet there is doubt as &c
whether the effort was deliberate or not
though this was the general impression
a 1.-THE time. Baker is player VINO
plants his feet in front of the bag and
never thinks of avoiding the base
runner. a fact which has caused him
to be cut several times. This was the
case Tuesday. The base runner mas the
right of way, and Baker naturally takes
long chances when he makes no effort
to avoid the spikes. The incident has re-
newed the old cry against the steel spikes.
though it can he said Fight here that
there il no danger of this device being
eliminated.
Base ball without some little element of
danger would he much too tame ii sport
to remain popular. and the club owners
realize this fact. There have been all
sorts of rurorS around about SnodgraSS.
one being to the effect that an Athletic
sympathizer had shot and killed him.
But the fact of the matter Is that the
players have forgotten all about the at
fair. which really amounted to little or
nothing.
When New York goes base ball mad
there is no limit to the enthusiasm. but
they are pretty quick to change here. for
all that. When the Giants won the first
game they were the greatest team ever,
but when they lost the next two there was
a change of opinion though strenuous
effort was made to blame the umpireS for
the defeats. OF course. there is still a
chance for the Giants. AS it is they have
not lost the series, but they have not
shown the class that was expected from
them. True. Mathewson and Marquard
pitched high-@rade ball. but not any bet
hoy
If the truth were known McGraw would
acknowledge that Mack has the best ball
team. and Yet that does not always as
sure success.
Clarke Griffith is one of those managers
who have been convinced that it is a mis-
take for ball club to try to build up a
winner with old material His experience
has been, he says, that there is no hope
for such a system. and that when he gets
in charge of another team he will start
out with the purpose in view of using only
young players.
These old fellows who are slipping
may show you something now and then.
but that is only to hold their jobs said
he. But winning teams are made up of
If a club tries to build up a
winning team with youngsters 1t may
have q year or two of tough roads to
travel, but once such team is gotten to-
gether ii lasts for years and brings de-
sired results. Look over the teams which
have been relying on seasoned material
to get a winner and you will find them
down in the race
John McGraw has been on his good
behavior all during the season, but he
broke out Tuesday when things went
against his team. and had to be repri-
manded by the commission. There is all
the difference in the world in the tempera-
ment of the two men who guiding
their teams in the present series. Connie
Mack might see himself getting the worst
of the decisions. yet would not make any
one be given against McGraw, and he is
it. 1t is but natural that the players of the
two teams should also differ as result
of the difference in the men who guide
them. The New York players have been
doing all the protesting to date, though
il is questionable whether there has been
any better umpiring in a worlds series.
Decisions go against the Athletics. but
there is no protest because Mack has
taught his players that the way to win
games is to stick at it and not annoy the
umpires.
1T is perhaps needless to say that from
this out Frank Baker will strike fear into
the hearts of any of the New York pitch
ers he may be asked to face in the series.
MathewSon may not become nervous
and pitch against him just as if he were
an ordinary performer with the stick. but
Marquard and some of the others will be
sure to display some wildness in an eff
fort TO keep Baker from hitting over the
fences.