The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29
Team Which Gets Breaks
Will Win Worlds Series
Christy Mathewson of the Giants Says 1t Is lmposs
bic to Figure on the Stars Keeping
Up Great Work

stantly trying 10 cross his opponent
The team has won the pennant. on
straIghtaway baseball.
Giants I'm the Lead.
There has been al great deal of pre-
| lirninary argument on the question of
whether the Giants will be able TO steal
bases freely on Carrigan and Cady, the
/ Boston catchers. Again the New York
club leads the National League in stolen
bases this season. but perhaps this Is
more of a hindrance than an aid to our
success on the paths in the worlds
/ series Our strength has been advertised
and the Red Sox can thus prepare for
this style OF attack In 1911 the Giants
led the league in stolen bases, but the
| willy Connie" Mack heard about II and
laid mis- plans we'll have been told
since that he had Thomas and Lapp out
every day for a month before the series.
throwing at second base, while practice
runners attempted to steal. The Ath-
letics' catchers became so proficient that
they could hit a knothole, and IL Is now
matter of history how many bases
the Giants were able TO steal in that
series. We were stopped right up short.
Stahl will undoubtedly make the same
~ operations for this coming series.
For my own interest, have been study
ing some figures which give a general
notion of the effectiveness of the two
Boston catchers, likely to do all the
work behind the bat in the series. Car
rigan had eighty-eight bases stolen on
him up to the middle of September, and
had nipped sixty-five runners. Cady
has lost twenty-four runners and nip
ped twenty-one. His record is the bet
ter of the two. Now these figures can
only be regarded in a general way be-
cause. there will be two conditions in
the, big game to Offset them. In the
first place, the New York club has a
better set of base runners than the
general average in the entire American
League from which the figures are
made. In the second place. the Red
Sox' catchers Will be trained TO strike
a better average than two out of every
five shown by these figures. when they
meet the Giants. Probably no one
realizes better than Stahl that IL the
Giants once start to steal bases on him
his team Is gone.
Giants Well on.
The Giants are we'll fortified in the
catching department; much better of,
I should say than the Red Sox. Meyers
is a fine catcher, a good thrower, and a
vicious hitter. which is the most i'm
portant feature. He excels both of the
Boston catchers in his stick work on
the season, and he is the kind of bat
ter who is liable to break up a game
with one blow at any time that two
or three men get on bases and he
comes to the plate. He is what is
known as a pinch hitter. That Is, he
is more likely to hit when something
depends on the blow than when the
bases are empty and two are out.
think that the Giants are very much
better off for catchers than Boston.
Arthur Wilson, who has got into the
game while Meyers has been laid up
for the past month. has shown that he
is great catcher, and the only reason
that he is not working regularly is be-
cause Meyers happens to be signed on
the same club. Wilson is a hard and
timely hitter and an accurate thrower
He may catch Tesreau in the series. as
he handles the spitball better than
Meyers does. The Chief does not care
for the spitba1l.
Next week. / shall conclude this Sc
ries of weekly stories, with a general
article on the condition of the two
teams and the outlook for the big bat
ties to be published the day before the
first game
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