Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
Pfsburg Manager Believes MGraws viii Beat Red sox
FRED CLARKE TELLS WHY GIANTS WILL WIN SERIES
By Fred Clarke.
Manager Pittsburs Pirates. }

nITTSBURG, Sept. I'll think
the Giants will win the
worlds series, but maybe it
is only hunoh that l have.
think the series will come down to
a question OF managers, and that
will mean that the manager who
knows the most baseball and gets
the best team work out Of his play
era viii yank down the persim-
mons, and McGraw is that man
ageR
Any one game of baseball is hard
to dope out beforehand, and a Sc
ries OF seven games is even more
difficult. A team is either going
bad or good. When one is bad, the
best batter on the team can not
seem to be able to even hit a long
fly that will send in a runner from
third when the run would win the
game. At other times, when the
same team is going good, there is
no pitcher who can fool the same
batter no matter how great pitch
er he may be.
The changes. too, from good to
bad or vice versa comes like
flash, and there is no explanation
for 1t. 1t is simply baseball, and
will be an unexplained feature of
the game is long as 1t exists.
Giants Not Hitting.
The Giants have not been hit
ting for some time. but figure thew
Will be about due to get into their
batting stride by the time to plav
the worlds series arrives. If they
do then they will hit any pitcher
the Red Sox put up against them.
On the other hand. the Red Sox
have been batting heavily all sea-
son with hardly a slump. They
are, by all the past history Of the
game-well, let us say automatica1
ly to let down in their hitting.
There is psychological time for
one club or another to start
worlds series, and If that time is
struck exactly right the team lucky
enough to get that break is praC-
tically unbeatable. Why, two years
ago, II Charley Murphy had called
off games a week ahead as he was
pressed to do. SO that the Cubs
could have started the worlds Sc
ries a week earlier, the Cubs
would have beaten out the Ath-
lettcs for the Cubs would have
been just primed for the battle.
But In one short week they
changed from good to bad while
the Athletics, by not having the
championship of their own league
to worry about, were both physical
ly and mentally better prepared.
look for the Giants to be ex-
actly 1T and ready for the coming
series, while the Red Sox will not
be as much on edge. The latter, by
all baseball precedent are due for
a slump.
Red Sox Due For a Tumble.
rms may appear as II SuperSti-
ton figured in my dope, but | don't
think SO, for l have never gone
through a season when any team
did not have a tumble. and the
Red SoX have been going too
smoothly all this season to es-
cape.
If both the Giants and Red SoN
happen to be going bad, though.
then is the time that superior man
agement will count the most and
best Any team that is going good
does not require much, if any. man
agement or headwork display. The
breaks do the winning work. but
II is always the time when teams
are going bad that a good team
shows that it is good, as paradox
cal as that may seem 1t Is in the
rocky days that the manager who
knows the most baseball viii show
f.
But with an even break. in my
opinion, il viii he McGraw's bet
ter knowledge Of the game. the sys-
tenn Of team work he has instiued
IN his players, that will pun him
out wiuuar over Manager StahL