Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
Pisbmg Manager Believes McGraws Team Win Beat Red Sox
FRED CLARKE TELLS WHY GIANTS WILL WIN SERIES
By Fred Clarke.
tManaaer Pittshura Pirates.l

DITTSBURG, Sept. 27.-I think
the Giants will win the
worlds series, but maybe it
is only a bunch 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 will ysnk 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 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 a
flash, and there is no explanation
for 1t. It is simply baseball. and
Will be an unexplained feature of
the game a long as It exists.
Giants Not Hitting.
The Giants have not been hit
ting for some time, but / figure they
Will be about due to get into their
batting stride by the time to play
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 automatica
ly to let down in their hitting.
There is a psychological time for
one club or another to start a
worlds series, and If that time is
struck exactly right the team lucky
enough to get that break is prac-
tiCally unbeatable. Why, two wears
ago, if Charley Murphy had called
off games a week ahead. az 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-
ietics, 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 tit and ready for the coming
series, while the Red SoN will not
be as much on edge The latter. by
all baseball precedent, are due for
a slump.
Red Sox Due For a Tumble.
This may appear as if supersti-
tion figured in my dope, but | don't
think SO, for ! have never gone
through 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 Sox
happen to be going bad, though.
then is the time that superior man
agement will count the most and
best Any team that is eoing good
does not require much if any. man
agement or headwork display The
breaks do the winning work. but
It is always the time when teams
are going bad that a good team
shows that it is good, rs paradox
cal as that may seem. II is i'm the
rocky days that the manager who
knows the most baseball will show
H.
But with an even break, in my
opinion i, viii me McGraw's bet
Ter knowledge of the game. the sys-
tenn of team work he has insti'ied
I'm his PLAYERS, chat win pull him
out Winner over Manager StahL