The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-14
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ATHL LETICS MEET GIANTS
 TODAY FOR WORLD TITLE

New York October 13.-The world championship baseball series about to be- gin marks the climax of interest In the great American game of baseball. The ehampionship contest comes every year. hut is ever new in the intense excite n,ent over the crucial senies. Last year philadelphia and Chicago were the cen ters of this championship storm the Philadelphia Athletics of the American league winning the coveted title.
 With the worlds pennant still flying over their magnificent baseball home at shibe park at Philadelphia. and with an other American league flag freshly won' Connie Mack and his Philadelphans now y,eet John J. McGraw and his Giants of the National league. It is the second time that these two generals have elashed over the same great issue. In the war of lsOo McGraw won four of the five battles' ard thereby brought to New York a worlds pennant.
 Seasoned by six years more experience in the generalship of their formidable baseball forces, these two baseball lead CTS now meet again for the championship struggle Two more divergent types than McGraw and Mack cannot be picked in the baseball world The contest between the two chiefs may be summed up briefly as follows:
 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 sue cess.
 Cornelius McGillicuddy, so named at lirth, but rechristened by the fans as Connie Mack" has been called the wiz ard of baseball" because of his skill in developing seemingly inferior talent into the superior player. Since he organized the Philadelphia club Il years ago he has turned out four champion teams in the American league and has led his men clcse to the front ranks in the league every season but one. His career has been, perhaps, the most successful or any of the so called bench managers. Sitting back away from the dust of bat tle, the cool and crafty chief with pencil and score book in hand, plots out the rrogress of the engagement and only oc- casionally amends the orders he gave his men before he sent them into the field.
 McGraw, known to fandom as the Ma poleonic leader of the Giants" has won three league pennants for New York and one world series. Since 1903 his team has never finished below third place in the National league. As big league player he is a famous product 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 al- ways has been, a typical player and lead e of the old fighting school whose slogan is Rush in and win.''
 Whether McGraw can bring his men back to the world beating class or must let the MacSmen possess the big flag for a second successive season, depends in some part upon sofse of the veterans who won for him the war of 1905.
 By the rules governing the world series each of- the leaders is allowed to enlist 21 men eligible as participants in the struggle. The choice this year has falleR to the following men.