The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-22
stahl Has One Of Greatest Collec-
tons Of Hurting Talent in
History Of Baseball.
RUBE VANGUARD Will SHOW
LITTLE CLASS IN BIG BATTLES
Giants General Win Be Forced to
Depend on Mathewson and
Tesreau for Victory.
By aEDDIEr COLLINS.

OF the Athletics
If variety is the spice of everyday life,
then variety of opinion is certainly the
spice of prospective worlds series.
After perusing the article written by
my coatsa1orary. Mathewson, last
week. see that the Giants have great
chance to win the title from the Red
Sox and that probably the New York
pitchers excel Stahl's collection of box
talent.
It is my notion that Stahl now has
in his possession one of the best pitch
ing stats that ever belonged to a big
league club, and l ought to know after
having faced them all for season. The
New York twiylers do not impress me
strongly, and l have also batted against
all of them except Tesreau- OF course,
for my estimation of Tesreau, / must
depend upon secondhand information.
Rube Was There.
The big crack in the Giants pitching
stan is "Rube" Marquard. 1t was his
sensational work in the early part OF the
season which gave the Giants the mag
nificent lead that assured them Of the
pennant. Without this squirt of his,
strongly doubt IL the Giants would be
where they are to-day. This club had to
draw heavily on this big margin before
the end of the race, and did not make
a. walk-away of IL, as was predicted
Now, even his friends admit that Mar
guard is gone, and that he viii be prac-
tically worse than useless in the big
show. 1t is doubtful IL he even starts a
game, and, IL he does. there should be
a long price on the bet that he does not
finish IL.
Tesreau Dangerous Looking.
Tesreau is the most dangerous-looking
pitcher that the Giants have. and he is
the man around whom the series re-
wolves. 1t is hard for me to discuss him.
having never seen him work; but 1t ap-
pears from the box scores that he can
come back and pitch just as good ball
within day or two after he has work
ed as he did on his initial appearance
That is a great point In a big series.
because a star who can. recuperate as
he can will be sent back often. The
Red Sox are worried about Tesreau.
They don't know how he is going to
look to them. He has certainly shown
some great games lately. II the Red
the National League teams have recently,
he should. be big factor in the series.
Friends of mine on the Boston club
have told me that they are more afraid
of Tesreau than any other New York
pitcher.
The other big factor in the series is
Mathewson. Ever since saw him pitch
in the worlds series in 1905. when / was
still in college, I have always had a
pitcher. He is. think. one Of the great
est that every stood In the box. but the
big nav in the possibility of him being
the hero of the series is his baseball
age. He has thirteen years of toll in
the big leagues behind him, and he has
begun to show the wear slightly this
year. He Is still a great pitcher. one
of the wonders of baseball. but he does
not possess the vitality he once had.
There was time when he could come
back every other day and like 1t. Now
he must have his three or four days OF
rest before he can work again.
Plenty of sox Talent.
After examining the Boston staff. one
which appear among the New York
twirlers by regarding its strength. Stahi
is plentfully supplied with high-class
talent. and will not be forced into over
working any one man. OF course. Joe"
Wood stands out as the star of them all
on the season. but the Athletics, natural
~. do not think as highly of Wood as
some Of the others. inasmuch as we
have had little difficulty in beating him
this year. The Philadelphia team was
the last one to win from him. when we
defeated Wood on the Fourth of July.
StahI did not start him against our club
in the last series. Ray Collins is one
man whom we could never beat, and I
look to see him shine In the worlds
series. OF course, a pitcher that beats
a club continually never has anything
and we could never see that Collins
had much, but the returns show that
the Athletics could not hit the ball as
he delivered it. and that is pretty good
proof Of his pitching ability.
Wood should be considered first. I
don't think that the Giants can bear
Wood. He Is something of the Coombs
type of twirier. He has great speed, and
q Undertaking curve that stands bat
ter on his head. His one weakness IL q