Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-03
LOCAL BALL FANS.
LIKE RED SOX
CHANCES
Worlds Series Will Be Along
Next Week, and Honolulu Ex-
perts Are Beg ming to Back
Their Judgment

A few days more, and tie worlds
series will be on. On October s the
New York Giants and Boston Red SoH
are scheduled to meet for the first
game of what promises to be n OF
tie most exciting series IN the history
Of the national game.
Honolulu fans, although separated
by a good many thous and miles OF
land and water from the theater OF
hostilities are neve the less looking
forward with keen anticipation To the
Zig doings. Almost everyone who fol-
lows baseball at all, has some prefer
ence as to the Notional and American
league organizations, that is lining
him up on one side or the other, and
there r a number who stand ready
% back their bunch or their Judgment
with real coin. There have been sew
eral comparatively small bets put
down at even money in Honolulu dur
ins the last week, but no big wagers
have been made public. Probably
more money will show from now on.
Local experts and near, experts seem
to favor the Sox, and Giants support
ers are scarce.
StahI Did 1t.
Since the opening of hostilities in
Fan Johnson's league this season the
showing of the Rec Sox club has been
the surprise of the year. 1t has been
admitted for some time tat the Bos-
tor club was a formidable organiza-
ton. but a lack Of pitching strength
and the absence of a good manager
contrived to keep it out of the pen
nant division. A change was noticed
in their work in 1911, but the big
Transformation occurred when Jake
Stahl abandoned the bank to return to;
the diamond and command the Sox.
Stahfs comeback swept the team
along to victory and it started out at
a fast clip, which many asserted II
could not keep up. There will come a
slump some day, al the general ten
or of most of the observations OF the
wise students, but instead the Sox hive
kept speeding along through April,
May, June, ETC., and the slump mas
been avoided.
Aside from Joe Wood, the remark
able young box artist of the Sox, the
one player who has rendered the most
aid to the winning aggregation is Iris
Speaker. The young man from HUI
bard City has clouted the pellet
around 400 through all the months OF
play, keeping right at the heels OF Ty
Cobb. He has also fielded in wonder
full fashion and his general all around
work has been the backbone OF the
Sox style of play.
outfieId.
The 1912 pennant winners in the
American do not compare with the
of the two previous years, the
Athletics, except in one departpT, A1e
CT tfield. In Speaker, Lewis and Hoop
er, it is acknowledged that the Bos-
ton team has the best trio Of gardeners
in either league.
The club has haG a quartet of pitcn-
PRS in Wood. Hall, O'Brien and Collins
trat would be a credit to any team,
and their consistent form, particularly |
of Wood throughout the race, has
been discussed in all sections where
has a footing.
Man for nan the Sox compare very !
favorably with their opponents from
he older body. Speaker o%utshines the
on either team and just at
present Joe Wood seems to ne the best
Of late he has sufferd from
his selfish desire to overcome Mar
record of nineteen wins, but
tied the string of sixteen vic
:ories, annexed by Walter Johnson,
Mood can rest contented until the
series opens. The Sox seem
have the advantage of a longer rest
han the Giants, but whether this is PHI
advantage or not remains to be
Within a few short days u atten-
ion will be again directed to the m
lual meeting of the two peDnant win
,trs. The first pages of the mainland
.ewspapers will be almost exclusively
'evoted to the event, and the sport
will carry the personal accounts
f the stars. of the game, who are eth
r battling for glory on the field or are
"iewing the battle from the grand
t2nd.