The Detroit times., 1912-09-20
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IHE| llk HARDLY SEE
TBt REO SOI BACK in
lien YORK, YOU KNOW
Cite Figures to Prove That the
Giants Look Like the
Better Club
sox BETTER FIELDERs
Outside of That New Workers
Won't Concede Them
Anything
sox BETTER FIELDERs

NEW YORK, Sept. 2o.-tspecial)
while the Red Sox are the general
fayorites IN the worlds series. tnou-
rands ar New Workers who are BACK
ing the Giants can't see II that way.
For some reason the Red Sox nave
been made q slight favorite In the
few small bets that have been mace
even along Broadway, but no reason
for that IL shown In the records OF
the two teams. 49,.
II Is ngely that those who have
made the Red Sox favorite are bank
ing on the pitching OF Joe WOOD,
Buck O'Brien and Bedient. Remem-
her though, none Of these men mas
aver appeared In a worlds series.
To get down to facts: The Giants
are heavier hitters than the Red Sox
and have shown themselves better
run-getters. For Instance, the Giants,
20 Far this season, have made 10
runs. while the Red Sox have made
hut TIA. At the same time the Red
sox have won 81 games, against 30
Tor the Giants. II must be understood,
however, that they have played more.
The Giants have lost the same num-
Der az Boston.
On the bases the Giants are far SUI
perior to any club In either league.
They have stolen 272 bases, against
III for the Red Sox. In the last
worlds series the Giants base run
ming ability did not cut much figure
for the simple reason that they did
not ret ON the bases. Still, with their
hitting ability, the Giants ought 70
ret great many more on the bags
fhis time than they did against the
Athletics.
The only department In which the
Red Sox show superiority over the
Giants. according to the oficial rec
orda n in fieiding. This season the
Giants have proved themselves very
erraffc An the defensive end Of the
ZANE. In the fielding averages they
stand last. On the other hand, the
Rad Sox are second. That possibly
ercouIlts for the fact that the Red.
Soy hhe won more games with a
weaker batting team.
D6rlt understand by this that the
Red aox are weak hitters. Far be II
from nat. They are only few points
behind the Giants In the general aver
age al dthey are likely at any time
fo start hitting streak that cannot
r. efonued.,
Whiie the Red sox are often re-
ferred 70 as sluggers, 1t ID very inter-
estihr TO know by the records that
the Giants are slightly ahead OF them
fl long cleanup drives.
According to the figures, the best
base runner on the Red Sox team Is
Iris Speaker. He il fourth. No other
Boston player 10 listed among the
frst ten. The Giants have q monop-
Oily on the base stealing averages in
the National. In the first ten appear
the names OF Doyle, Snodgrass, De-
wore. Murray. Herzog and Becker.
According to these figures, the
Giants have shade the best OF the
Red sox, 90 Il naturally comes down !
70 1 question OF pitching. Could the
Giants hit that hard against Joe
Wood, Bedient and Buck O'Brien with
his spitball? That's q question that
no one can answer.
On the other hand the question |
arises; Can, the Red Sox hit 90 hard |
against. Mathewson, Marquard and |
Tesreau7 Many OF them have batted |
AGAINST Matty, and though they lost |
the opener to him, they afterward |
gave him q trimming. They do not |
seem to fear him, but as Jimmy Nc
Aleer said the other day: ANY team |
that beats Mathewson has to get up |
and dust. !, He always pitches an In |
teIligent game, no matter what IL the
condition Of his arm. His experience |
a also Of immense advantage TO him."
The work OF Marquard, Bedient.
Tesreau and O'Brien in a worlds
series II hard TO figure. Marquard has
been against the fire and has more
experience than the others, but he
was not successful against the Ath-
letics. o,Brien and Tesreau are both
spitbalI pitchers and they are bound
40 be troublesome. Neither the Giants
nor the Red sox like to hit at spit
tiers. $500
The man the Boston supporters are
depending upon to win the champion
ship a Joe Wood. There In no doubt
ing the fact that he IL wonderful
pitcher He has fast ball that is
the wonder OF the American league,
and his slow one Ia a marvel. His
great change Of pace Is bound to
wreak havoc with any string OF bat.
terra provided he does not lose his
head. Wood has been In many hard
nights and ought 10 be fully able to
take tare OF himself.