Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-24
Worlds Series Looms As
Greatest In All History

! to the batteries. 1dore than ever will
battery strength figure in this falls
big series. Outside the points the
I teams shape up as of about equal
strength. The Red Sox lay 1t all over
, the Giants in the matter of outfield
strength. Boston boasts the create,
! garden trio of the game. But New
York fully equalizes this in the in
| field. McGraw has an exceptionally
classy inner defense; Boston's first
line is not brilliant. Larry Gardner,
at third, is the best of the lot, and
there are three of more third baSemen
in his own company that are ranked
! higher than the Boston man. But the
! infield four of the speed boys cover ii
multitude of sins by heavy stick work.
Everyone of one of them is slugger
Heine Wagner is almost as much of
terror as his illustrious namesake Of
the Pirates. Jake Sthal is a fence
buster. In defensive speed and Skill
New York undoubtedly lays it over
j Boston's infield. However, the Hubs
superior hitting power and the out
field advantages make it just about
; toss up. | speak now of the short
SERIES.
It's pretty nearly a question of pitch
ing then. Both teams have wonderful
catchers. Meyers, McGraw's classy
Indian backstop has nothing on CARR
gan, except perhaps shade in hitting
ability. 1t is his superior strength in
shade advantage at the start. He has
five rafting good tossers any one OF
whom is likely to make McGraw's best
step to the limit-Joe Wood, Bedient,
Hall, O'Brien and Collins. Wood is
one of the most wonderful pitchers of
the age. He is a speed marvel of the
Walter Johnson type. Bedient is an
other fast ball pitcher and a dandy,
too. Hall is good curve ball mani
prlator. "Bucky O'Brien, just round
ing into effectiveness for the first time
spitball fingers in the big league. Ray
Collins is a Southpaw and a cracka-
jack, too.
Giants Face Hard Battle.
New York will have the time Of its
life beating and one of these five
pitchers unless the Giant tossers fling
shut ball. New York never has
seen such speed as Wood will show.
O'Brien is a better spitball tosser than
Hendrix of the Pirates. Collins is the
best lefthander in the American
league.
Against this brilliant array OF box
talent the Giants will have to stack
Mathewson,e Marquard and Tesreau
And of the three, Tesreau looms as
the great hope. Strangely enough, the
Red SoX fear this green, inexperienced
tosser more than they fear Matty or
the "Rute" Tesreau is big enough to
work every other day if necessary and
he has just the kind of a spitball that
the Red SoX do not relish. In fact,
Boston murders most anything but the
Spitball. The Hub team looks forward
with pleasure to meeting with Mat
hewson.
In 1909 the Speed Boys half massa-
cred the Big SoX' when he was at
the height of his glory. They now
figure him and old man" compared to
those days. OF Marquard the Hub has
NO fear. The flllacy that Boston
Americans prove a CinCh for left-hand-
ers has been pricked. The lineup en-
braces just two left-handed swatters
aud one of these, Iris Speaker, pounds
forkhand singing harder than the
right-winged kind.
New York will have one great ad
vantage-that of having been through
one worlds series campaign. This
should prove a big boom in a battle
among youngsters Oh both sides
There have been many instances
where a young team Out-gamed a
bunch of veterans. The Athletics VS..
the Cubs in 1910 is a very striking ex-
ample But it must be remembered
that the veteran pitchers of Connie
Mack, who shouldered the chief re-