Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-12
CLIMAX Of INTEREST
N national GAME
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES OF BASE.
BALL GAMES AWAITED WITH
INTENSE INTEREST.
SECOND TIME GIANTS AND
ATHLETICS HAVE CLASSIFIED
Interesting Gossip Concerning Two
Team Managers and Their Men -
Both Teams Will Depend Largely on
Veterans - Marquard Former Iowa
Lacquer.

Veterans - Marquard fofTer Iowa
Lacquer.
/ New York. Oct. l2.-The world
championship baseball series about &c
begin marks the climax Of interest II
the great American game OF baseoaii
/ The cham pionship contest comes every
Year. but Is ever new IN the intense
excitement over the crucial series. Last
year Philadelphia and Chicago We're
the centors OF this championship storm
me Philadelphia athletics o: the An.e.-
lean league winning tae coveted ute
Win Inc world pennart stu! i!!lhs
ever their magnificent ndStDa.I hoil!e
q, SnIbe PARK at Philaueipnla, and
with another American league nag
freshly won, Connie Mack and ms
Pnlladelphias now meet John j. NC
GI-aw ana his Giants OF the National
lea que. 1t is the second time that
these Two generals nave clashed over
The same great issue. In the war OF
1904 McGraw Won four OF the 1ve bat
dies and thereby brought 10 New York
worlds pennant.
Seasoned by six years more expert
e.ce IN the generaiship OF their tor
midable baseball forces, these Two
pas eaall leaders now meet again Tor
the championship struggle. Two more
divergent types than McG7aw ana
Mack can not De picked IN the baseball
world. The contest between the two
chiefs may be summed up briefly as
follows:
Mack-Aged 40 born in New Eng
land; tail and lanky. calm and delloer-
ative: leads from TIT bench; plans bat
tie before game: never dons Uni
ol-lu; Known as ,actician.
McGraw-Aged IS; born in New
York state: short and chubby; quick
and iInpulsive: always on coaching
lines: resorts to quick judgment: al
ways in ball toys; distinctly stTate-
siS,.
And SO on. with inner distinctions.
the divergence might be traced and
when the problem was finally worked
out J, would be found that about the
only point OF intersec ton in their
methods is success.
Wizard Of Baseball"
Cornelius McGillio udd,t. so named
Al birth. but rechristened by the fans
as Connie Mack" has been called
the wizard Of baseball" because OF
his skill in Developing seemingly in
ferior talent into the superior player
Since he organized the Philadelphia
club eleven years ago he has turned
out four champion teams in the Amer
lean league and has led his men close
10 the front ranks in the league every
season bu, one. His career has been.
perhaps the most successful of any
Of the So called bench managers. Sit
ting back away from the dust Of bat
tie. the cool and crafty chief with
pencil and score book In hand plots
put the progress OF: the engagement
and only occs sioaally amends the
orders ne gave his men before he sent
them into tire field.
MctiraS. known 20 fandon a. the
SapoIeonic leader Of the Giants has
WOE three league pe1nants Cor New
York and one world series. Since
1903 his team has never finished be-
low third place in the National
League AS big league player he
Is a famous product Of the old Ba!ti-
more Orioles of the National League.
X hen the club broke up after the sea-
son Of 1902 he came 70 the metropolis
as manager Of the Giants. He is. ard
always has been. 4 typical player and
leade- Of the old fighting school whose
slogan is Rush /. and win
McGraw Dope nds on Veterans.
Whether McGraw can bring his
men back to the vorld-beatins class
or must let the Mackmen possess the
big flag for second successive sea-
son. depends in some part upon some
D: the Veterans who won for him the
war Of 1905
BY the rules governing the wor'1
series each of the leaders is allowed
to en.!st twenty-one men eligible as
participants in the struggle. The
choice this year mas fallen to the fol-