The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-18
(By Jack West.)
Wood vs.. Nfathcwson.
Collins VS.. Marquard.
Wood US. TCSrcOu.

Its an ironclad cinch that the Giants
and the Red Sox will kick into the
worlds series. as they say around
lForty-second street and Broadway. Nc
team in the American league has q
chance to beat out the Stahlwarts, no
more chance than that of a brunette
candidate in Meriden. Miss.
AS far al the New Workers are con-
|cerned. 1t is a cinch. too. that fifty per
cent Of the annual i%nterleague on
Aict will be the Polo Grounders.
Who will win?
Some wise guy who batted for some
thing like 400 in the Surething league
once said something about fools doing
Ia Brodie where an angel would not
enter, or some words to that effect.
So 1t is with the prophecies about
the winner of the blue ribon Of base
ball. There are thousand and one
things that can shoot into a seven
game struggle for that larger slice OF
the soft coin. One wee break of luck
hitting the Red Sox below the eye
lashes. and it might be a case of wav-
ing hurried farewell to the prize.
look like the best bet in the world. and
then would come some little play and
the worlds series would wave a Chau-
tauqua salute for the Giants.
But its as much a cinch that the
two main factors in a worlds series
are hitting and pitching as 1t is that
there are mosquitoes in Jersey.
Who Have Been Heroes.
Take a squirt back oyer the records.
Who have done the hero stunt in these
end-of-the-season battles? What OF
one Terror Of Trappe. ]. Franklin
Baker? Didn't those two little fly
away %hogeings that he hand to c.
Mathewson and R. Vanguard just
cienda of heroes, or the bungalow of
bravery.
How about Charles Albert Bender?
Didn't his twirling in the last spat
|twixt Philadelphia and the suburb of
Jersey City just about land the Caesar
of the Chippewas on the hummock of
heroism and the floor of fame?
So 1t will be in this a~nte-season
clash.
Now comes the original question.
Who will each manager place in the
pavilion to slip across the parabolae
that. will kick somebody at the base
Of the medulla oblongata?
What trio Of slabmen can come
through hurting the harpoon and show
themselves as artists that measure up
to the standard Of Coombs, Bender
and Plank?
For It will be the little buddy with
the bludgeon and the lad with the
Ilobbing who will pretty near be the
one best topic Of conversation during
the winter months. when the bugs
busy themselves getting on a fine foot
ling with Old Colonel Dope.
Collins Looks Great.
Pin n little wager down that II
Ray Collins. the long piece of pitch
ing who draws his semimonthly sti-
pend from McAleer, stacks up against
the Reuben Marquard that the latter
; will be carried along AZ, fast as a
mushy apple in the Johnstown flood.
Eddie Plank stacked against the
side-wheeler from Harlem last season.
and he made the Hon. Richard Dc
Marquis look like the morning after
a tough night along the coast.
Plank in his palmiest moments new
or had anything more in his extensive
repertoire than Ray Collins carries in
his portmanteau at the present time.
In tho language Of the expressive play
er whose brow runs back like a slant
ed letter Il" Collins has everything.
No need to use the needle to find
out where Wood fits. But the fans
seem to have been blindfolded by
Joseph's electric 8 They have
forgotten that Collins is Just about the
southpawiest southpaw hat has been
southpawing during the season.
Collins made q late. start. but he