The Detroit times., 1911-10-12
NOR[DS SERIES METHOD
Of DETERMINING CHAMPS
IS ALL TO THE WORST
Few Games Give No Chance
Whatever to Determine Real
Merits of Opposing Teams.
GRAND SPECTACLE THO.
Wonderful Part About Cobb's
Getting Chalmers Auto Is
Il Was BY Perfect Score.
~ RALPH 4. YoNKER.

ny nALfH L. NONNEn.
The biggest event In the baseball
history of 1911 will have been at least
nearly, and perhaps entirely. COM
Dleted within a week. The worlds
series. which promises to break all
records for attendance and receipts,
viii have been finished and the play
ors viii have pocketed their share or
~ coin and figured on some way TO
e|Tn some more during the winter.
Some one team-six claiming that II
Vii be Athletics, which seems very
n<obable. and an even half-dozen pre-
dieting that II will be the Giants,
which seems very probable, too-will
I've the proud title, Champions OF
u World" M 81
THAT ought to help the winners in
matrimonial ventures, for American
h8iresses are notably susceptible to
titles But In the baseball world. the
real Significance of the headline is
very little unless 1t should happen
#4t either one team or the other
ould very clearly outclass the other,
I'D II would have to be much more
dearly than the dazzle OF the ard
nee dope OF the one congregation
o1tshines that OF the other.
AFTER the series is all history, you
m be able to pick the real cham
bns of the baseball world just as
utll as now, and but very little better.
ne fastest horse invariably wins Its
re. the best boxer usually combs
opopnent, but the best baseball
nm cannot be decided by a single
sIoft series.
II takes a, season OF playing through
81 kinds OF conditions, against every
s||rf Of opponent, to decide the true
I.erits of contending teams. Baseball
Al too complex and there are too many
thousand chances for the element OF
luck to enter In to make Il certain
that the superior team 10 going to win
he majority of seven games.
Nothing can show the truth OF this
better than the record OF the Ameri-
Am league champions during the last
hree years. In 1909. the Tigers lost
out OF % contests TO the Athletics,
Nearly demonstrating that the Ath-
#fics were assuperior team, II only
ne series b counted. But the Mack
Zen copied the flag
IN the next year. the Athletics took
Ne majority OF the games played with
Ne Tigers again. which. II II were
Ne rule that the loser OF the series
.opped the rag. should have thrown
he pennaht to the Tigers again. as II
&Id the year before. But II didn't
And. finally, this year. the Tigers
box an even dozen Of the 22 conflabs
nth Comics men. and yet were
Ieaten to the flag In walk.
So II any fan wants to hold that his
&efs. either In the one league or the
Ither. are the real champions. he can
lave his way, whether the Athletics
rs the Giants succumb.
II the championship series doesn' !,
|ecide the championship, what good
y it,
II baseball were an amateur sport
|Iayed only for the. winning OF honor
BE question could be answered with
vacuous look.
Az II Is. the worlds series il the
&randest spectacle in baseball Two
oams. who have proved themselves to
Is the best in their leagues for q
Mole season, engage their skill and
WITS before the largest crowds OF paid
1dmissions ever clicked through the
|nrnstiles.
Everybody and his brother are
here.
It Is the coronation Of the baseball
|rincee.
It's popularity is increasing with
very year and 1911, because OF the
net that its final series 10 played In
lie two centers OF population OF the
onntry on grounds with capacity
raafer than that Of any others In the
alton, will see all records for at
ndance broken.
AZ q money-making spectacle the
Iir bout has everything OF its kind
/Ir1 IN the stable. As a means o.
@tformining the worlds baseball
1nampeen team--nothing DOING
Hugh Chalmers baseball commits
on OF sporting writer's, who awarded
cobb the Chalmers automobile, as thu
king OF the players Of the American
hague, have a more decisive way o.
@formining who IL without peer
N giving Tyrus a unanimous choice
lev leave no doubt that he isn't de
IRVING OF the recognition.
II has been conceded that Cobb wal
I|1 man for the auto. and that thu
Ito was for Cobb, but even tho
cach's most ardsnA admirers did no
IRE hope that local prejudice would
1f influence some New Yorker o.
<|<telnnder or other unreasoning per
.n 20 stick home fayorite az th'
10 81 his HIST as first choice.
Thaf hitting makes big impress
.nn with followers OF the sport 4
rfhcf shown by the fact that Home
In Schultz. OF Chicago, was choseI
~ the National league auto.
Ed walsh OF Chicago. with a rat
~ higher than that Of Schultz, wa
||<ccd to see Cobb's perfect scor
I'D him 10 car Eddie Collins, Jo
&ckzon and Larry Lajoie followe'
#alsh. Mathewson. Doyle. MarQuard
|n4ner and Alexander were arnonl
~ leaders IN the National league.
Going Down. X. or
NEW YORK, Oct 1.-THE pape
<|41tcs OF X, o. Brown, who Il
| Memphis. took another drop her,
nI4hI. Tor the fnuch-battled Ba
'.1n took the measure OF willie
|[|tr. VIA has hlmself defeats,