The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-08

Ew YORK, Sept. 1.-The worlds
baseball series OF 1912 Is one
likely to be remembered as long
h the game endures- Not only will
/ bring together, In the respective
Ep5or league champions. an unusually
|en matched pair of contestants, but
will also furnish a stake OF such
fantic proportions as to bring out
Fe very last ounce of fight
Less than a month is left OF the
04Jor league schedules. Much may
open in\ that time. In neither
|>gue, so far. has the peunant been
|on to an absolute certainty, Yet the
W York Giants and the Boston Red
'1x appear to have such .strangle
'plus on the laurels that for the sake
argument. We'll eliminate the rest
the clubs. Unless some miracle
opens the big. annual pow-wow OF
He clans will be staged Jointly In
ne city and in the City OF Culture.
fpr everyone at all concerned In
~ national pastime a better post
son attraction could not he ar
uged In the matter OF pure sbil-
"a it is doubtful if two better
1efched rivals ever faced each other,
1ese prospective challengers for q
orld's title represent two OF the
reztest baseball cities OF tile coun-
"a New York wiIl undoubtedly be
|e popular favorite over Boston,
least in the speculative fields.
'<tshurg money is bound to have
<cn an influence. II Is always a
nple question OF National league
|<uument against that OF the Amer
1n league and Pittsburg money In
af1a bly, backs its sympathy for the
~ major Organization.
"a course New York, in view of
local baseball conditions, is a
hotbed of National league en-
''usiasm and will string along with
'e Giants to the bitter end on that
count. Conditions Just the reverse
Kfrsll in Boston
me Hub cannot see the National
1kue with spyglass. But the pre-
'nqelance Of National lea que money
om New York and Pittsburg Is like
% 90 hegglng for odds, no matter
.'F loyal and game the Bostonians
1'ay be.
rev York is set upon a worlds
ampionship for this season, 1t feels
'e olssrace attached TO last falrs
kFy Showing against the worlds
eempion Athletics. Besides this,
cGraw needs the honor for sdyer-
's'ns purposes. lie is taking the
'ents and picked team from the
'7ttonal league OF q tour Of the
P'fd tnis winter, You may imagine
q" dearly the Giants will sell their
Fss for the added prestige of that
raslc title.
~ incentive enough 10 make New
as nght TO the last ditch even IL
uons share OF the spoils did not
10 the victorious team Further
le' This is year of years for up-
" devolves the prestige of the rival
'0r LEAGUES. This Is the rubber
world championships Each
sue mas now four titles TO Its credit
upon this falpB result hinges a
Z, deal Of civic pride among tho
@teruity.
ene Giants and Red sox meet and
1u are In the Same sort of condition
enabled them 10 make such brill
seasons records. the worlds
'es is bound to be worth while,
'sonally think the Red Sox the
'ter Of tho two teams. To my mind
nave proved as much by going
oueh The whole season without ono
'0us slump think that in a long
nke seasons championship of
games the Giants would suffer
10y oy comparison. But worlds
tmpionship series and a 154Rame
lee are different propositions.
euALLY-other things being
~ equat-thIs short dash puts IL
nsht up to the batteries. More
'an eyar viii battery strength figure
thiH falls big series.
>'utnoe The points the teams shape
az OF about equal strength. Tho
sox lay 1t all over the Giants
me matter of cutiicld strength.
,7lVn boasts the greatest garden
'2oi The game. But New York fully
o7iizeS this in The inaeld McGraw
y an exceptionally classy inner de-
1se' Enstoh'B first line Is not bril-
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