The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-06

base per try in the 1911 world series
than the Athletics.
I'll now take up and give my opinion
on players compared with each other.
l hesitate though to go into this mat
ter too deeply. however as the his
tory Of heroes of the series in the past
have shown that the man least expect
ed to star breaks up the games.
Taking up the outfield, collectively
and individually, l believe the Boston
outfield far superior to the New
Yorks. Hooper, Lewis and Speaker
are the greatest fly catchers, throwers
and batters, as whole, ever gotten
together since the Old Oriole outfit in
the early COS.
I think Devore, Snodgrass and Muir
ray will be McGraw's pick against the
Red Sox righthanders and Becker,
Snodgrass and Murray against left
handler Collins, of the Sox.
Lewis outfits either Becker or De-
wore, covers worlds more ground and
a double to single by his fast field
ing and pegging. The sun field in New
York VIII bother Lewis little as
there are only two or three on the
American circuit, and he hasn't the
has. Devore and Becker both have
stolen more bases than Lewis, On all
around work I pick Lewis as the best.
Comparing Speaker and Snodgrass
Is easy. Snodgrass has improved con-
siderably over last year and is hand
ling line drives much better than his
1911 mark, but I think he will show
UP well in the coming series. Speak
er at present is hitting around 1856
and the most rabid New York fan viii
concede he has no equal on the de-
fensive. His work, as far as I have
SEEN has been without an equal.
Speaker Is expected to star In the Sc
ries and for that reason 1t may affect
his work slightly. He's taking things
like veteran though, and will be
there with the long healthy wallops
when its counts. Speaker and more
Speaker on choice of center fielders.
MURRAY HITTING HARDER.
As to right garden, between Muir
ray and Hooper. Murray is outhitting
Hooper and has also stolen more
bases. Hooper covers more ground
in fielding drives, but both are great
on pulling off those running with the
ball catches. We all remember Reds
performance in last years world Sc
ries. but no one thinks he will slump
as badly as he did then. Compare
lively speaking think this position a
real stand off with a slight shade to
Murray.
Coming to infield we find that New
York has the right hand of the in
field over Boston and Boston has ell
the better of 1t on the left hand side,
the infields as a whole being about
equal. Taking UP first base and go
ing around we find:
Big Stahl, or Jake, as he is familiar
" called, returned to the game this
year and surprised his most ardent
supporters by the game he has been
playing. He's a quick thinker and
sure on ground balls. though / think
he attempts to cover more ground
than he should as he's not fast enough
to get to the foul line on a hit down
first base line. Fred Merkle is the
man who, by his gameness and ten
acity of purpose. has made himself
what he is. He has to thank McGraw.
of course, for giving him a chance to
make good, and he has developed in
a perfect mechanical player. / don't
think Merkle is as quick in action as
Stahl, though he covers more ground
around first. Merkle gets the call on
first base honors.
Yerkes and Doyle next. Doyle is
outhitting Yerkes 80 points and that
as a starter is some handicap to over
come. Doyle is speedier on the bases
as basestealing records show.
Both Steve and Larry cover an i'm
mense amount of territory, and 1 think
Steve is the surer fielder of the two.
Larry has never gotten over his habit
of fighting grounders and will play
safe an awfully hard chance and bob
BILE an easy one. Doyle will more than
overcome this with his stick work and
gets my preference here.
AS TO SHORTsToP.
Fletcher and Wagner are on equal