Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-24

his best on the third day against Mar
GUARD. Then there's Buck" O'Brien,
Hail and Bedient. either of whom can
give the hest of the New York staff
a battle. Collins, as a southpaw. is
counted upon for one game, for New
York has been weak against a good
left handler. The New Workers are
conceded to be terrors on the bases,
running wild at every opportunity, and
il is understood they secretly hope to
win here, but with this bunch of tos-
sers opposing them and the devastat-
ing arm of Bill Carrigan behind the
bat they are likely to run up against
the jolt of their lives.
Chief Meyers probably will catch
every game for the Giants and appears
to have a little something on Carrigan
for this position. The Indian may be
the better hitter, and shows 1t with
his average, and he is without a rival
in either league as a mechanical back
stop, but he does not possess Carfi-
gan's admirable adaptation and pow
ers of initiative. In other words he is
superior to the Bostonian on the de-
fensive but can hardly be compared to
HIS T1Ndl vi tic oitEHSiNt+
The batting and fielding averages of
Stahi and Merkle at first leave little
choice in so few games. Merkle has
triie advantage in both depart.
ments possibly through having been
in the game more regularly, but Stahl
is far the quicker thinker and header
player at bat or on the bases. Merkle
once lost the National League cham
pionship for New York through
"bonehead" play and probably never
will live down the black mark.
StahPs apparent advantage at first
evens up whatever advantage New
York may have at second with the
sterling Doyle. Larry is heralded as
New York's best bet from start to
finish to play rings around Yerkes or
Ball. He is the captain and the pivot
around which nearly all of New York $
trickery revolves. He leads Yerkes In
batting by $40 to .27s but Yerkes off
sets this somewhat by having an ad-
vantage of &c points at fielding.
At short, Wagner may be played for
everything on the card, though New
York points to the closeness of his
averages to those of Fletcher
But Fletcher nor any other man IN
either league has approached the dar-
ing attempts and sensational stops of
the Boston player. Wagner, this year,
has been without peer and there
seems to be nothing to it but him at
short in the coming series.
At third, Herzog may have an edge
on Gardner as a fielder but those of
us who saw Gardeners diving catches
in the Phila games will have to be
shown. Gardner is way to the front
with the bat.
In the outfield with Speaker out of
it there would be little to choose. hut
Speaker isn't out of it. Accidents bar
red, Spoke" will be there with both
feet and this means that the Giants
are totally eclipsed in this department.
Murray is batting II points better
than Hooper while their fielding aV-
erages are the same. leading all out
| fielders of their respective leagues
with .972. Becker and Lewis are tied
with a batting average of .270 hut the
| Boston man leads by three points at
fielding. Speaker entirely outclasses
| Snodgrass Mt batting with 1887 to .25S,
, and leads in the field by is points.
| How New York Wins.
! AS we have said, New York has won
lot Of games by running and
We have mentioned two of the factors
to oppose them in the coming games.
There is another-Wagner. Boston is
banking upon him to break up that
| happy Giant habit of pilferins third
! base. The Giants have won many a
| game by piliering the third corner
but the little shortstop is laying 70,
'em this time and his maneuVering vii
be highly worth watching. He is tht
best in his league at claiming runnel
at second and he is ready to worl
overtime against the Giants. A New
York papers says, "McGraw has pre-
pared for this by teaching his batter,
to hit through short while Wagner i!
at third" Help, The next thing w,
l know they'll be knocking Joe Wood
cap off for joke-or some other lit
e tie batting trick like that!
1t seems to be up to the Red Sox