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debating club to order on the street
corner, in the office or any place where
men can pause for a moment. The af-
firmative grabs off a generous alIot-
ment Of time for the opening argu-
ment and leads off with. for instance,
this harangue:
They're all talking Sox, Just like
they all talked Jeffries- And the Giants
are going to surprise them, Just like
Johnson did. And III tell you why. Joe
Wood is Boston's one best bet If he's
off color it's good night SOX. Now, lis
ten. You know what winning 10
straight did to MarquaFd. And Joe
Wood has just finished the American
leagues record run. Wen, the nervous
strain has got him so Wobbly that"
WObbIy, Is lie.
so Wobbly that the Yankees ham,
mered him for a total of two hits in
the first game he pitched after his run
was broken. He's so wObbly that his
jump ball wobbles out of the way when
q batter swings at it. Yes he's gone
so far back that they would begin
making hits off him If they could only
see the ball when he shoots it over"
That's all right. The Yankees are a
bunch of dubs- 1 tell you that record
of Woods has put him on the blink for
short series it's all in the pitching and
you've got to have men you can de-
pend upon The Giants can depend
on MathewsOn and Tesreau. Tesreau
is the sensation of this season. He has
got better every day since spring, and
the way he's going now they can never
stop him. And Mathewson is the great
est pitcher in the world
Maybe he IS, considering what he
has done in the past. But what man
used to be able to do won't count in
deciding the baseball championship Of
the world"
Matty the Greatest.
"A1 right You say Matty used to
be the greatest Well, he's as good to-
day as he used to be and the figures
show it What do you think of that?
Last year he won six games and lost
u. This year he has won 10 and lost
26-just the same percentage, and this
year he has had the greatest control
in the world, averaging less than one
base on balls to a game, and moreover,
he has had more games kicked away by
bad support this year than ever be-
fore
The debaters are certainly right
about the Importance of pitching in a
short series like the great classic. The
Geath6ealing warclub Of John Franklin
Baker relegated box work to the shad-
oWs last year, but most worlds series
are ike those which were featured by
the twi-ling Of Bill Deneen, Mordecai
Brown, Jack Coombs, Ed Walsh, Chris
ty Mathewson and Babe Adams
MatheWson is the greatest of all world
series heroes. He set a mark for them
all % shoot at when he won three
straight shutout triumphs over the
Athletics in 1905. He had the White
Elephants eating out Of his great right
paw. He beat Eddie Plank SO in the
first game, trimmed Andy COakley 80
in the third game and BANKED the
great redskin, Chief Bender, 20 IN the
fifth and deciding game of the series
Giants Have Reserve Force.
Bedient. who will likely be StahPs
third choice in the box, with Joe Wood
and Ray Collins makes a mighty strong
looking triple alliance, but mighty
strong" describes New York's slab
squad. too.
There's no gainsaying the fact that
Mathewson is still the steady, reliable
boXman he was of old and that he is
pretty certain to pitch at least one
brilliant game against the SoX- The
best pitcher in the world would have
his hands full opposing Jeff Tesreau,
and then there is RUDE Marquard- It
is far from impossible that the holder
Of the worlds record for consecutive
victories viii prove the hero of the
series
Everything considered. it is nonsense
to say that either one of these pitching
stats Outclasses the other. They arc
just about equal This would be by no
means true if Joe Wood were to suf-
fer a reaction on account of his record
run, but judging from the way he
pitched against the HighIanders his
slump lasted about as long as the flight
Of a shooting star across the sky. Ray
Collins. the second best pitcher in the
Stahl crew, while not generally fig
ured as formidable as either Mathew
son or Tesreau, is consistent winner