The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-16
BOSTON AND GIANTS
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''r' 7t'H#f'e0ti A'h'sN'a stttt4 -NtN UT would play off the worlds series of 1al2 While it is of course DOS. sible that neither the Giants nor the Red SoN will win their respective pehnants. there seems at this writ ing nothing that can catch them. These games should be as interest ing as were those which wound up the las, season. Both clubs are fi-hters No game in which either of them play is over until the last man is out They are close together in batting. the Giants have the advantage on the bases. bur they are not up 10 the American league leaders in fielding activity.
 If they come together I should he inclined to take the club on the short end oi the betting. if there Is any short end, which doubt
 The opening of the present base ball season showed more new man. aers than had ever broken into the big league al the same time. When the next season opens it is not unlikely there will he an equal number Of new pilots in charge of big league clubs. Rumor has it that the men whose successors are being looked for are Hughey Jen- nings. of Detroit. Frank Chance. of Chicago, Harry Wolverton. of thu New York Americans. Bill Dahlen. of Brooklyn, Johnny King Of the Bos. ton Nationals. and Harry Davis. of Cleveland. Chance is 10 go accord. ing to the stories because of i'll. health. Jennings because uf his mix up i'll the recent strike and the others because they failed to show winning teams. Of course all these men may not be let out, but that some of them will be seems certain.
 Every year the fact that the sue cess of team depends almost as much upon the manager as upon the players is coming to be more fully recognized Right or wrong. the public is inclined to believe that McGraw and Chance and Clark. and Jennings and Mack have fully as much 10 do with the winning of pen rants as Mathewson. Baker. Cobb Wagner or Schulte.
 And by the same token great man aeers are harder to land than great players.
 Talking about Mathewson. it Is Interesting to note that in his twelve years in the box he has won 303 games and lost 14O His twelve Sear average is .6&5 per cent. and this year his percentage is up near the top mark. Matty's best year was 19o4, when he won 8 games and lost eight, a percentage of .Sl4. He did pretty nearly as well in 1909 when he won 25 and lost 6. percent age or S0O. Five times in his F Years in the box he has had higher percentage than he has so far this year Pretty good work for an old man who is going back.
 Gilbert Robinson. the Giants coach Who has received great credit for developing Rube Marquard. has been identified with the national game for nearly 30 years. The crack battery -McMahon and Robinson-frst al tracted attention with the old Ath- letics of the American association They also did splendid work for the champion Baltimore Orioles for which McGraw was member. McGraw and Robbie invested their earnings in thirst parlor known as The Dia- mond in Baltimore. Then the St. Louis club signed them for big money, but they hopped back to the Monumental City to organize an American League club there. Robbie owns the Diamond all to himself now, but he is drawing a fat salary from the New York club for helping out his old chum, McGraw, who would feel lost without him.
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