Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-23
GIANTS HAVE A
BETTER CHANCE
THAN MACKMEN
"Rube" Marquard Favors His
Team to Beat Athletics in
Worlds Series.
BY "Rube" Marquard.

League ana HOiutF OF me W ora
Record for Consecutive Victories al
Nineteen Strdight.)
TLOOK for the greatest worlds Sc
ries Of history this fall. It's al
most a dead certainty that the
Giants and the Athletics will figure
as principals I could not conceive
two better matched contenders. ]
am confident that my team will win.
We are about due, l think We
certainly are due for one triumph
out OF three starts. Anybody VINO
saw us in action against the Athletics
in 1911 and against the Red Sox in
1912, must admit that the luck broke
against US.
With any Of the favors Of fortune
we would have won both those Sc
ries. Home Run" Frank Baker took
the wind out of our sails in 1911. Two
pinch" home runs decided the Issue
against US. The Trappe sluggeT
nicked me for one and Matty for the
other. Followers of baseball will
realize the fiuky nature of such wal
Ups an 'hdt IL not Salu III d spirit
10 GeCraCt IN tne least from the CLASS
" ~, Tonne Nach asgregation.
we were not ouIPlayed last ran
by the Red Sox Everything broke
just right for Jake Stahrs Speed
Boys. Do you recolect that five out
of the eight games were billed at
Fenway Park in the Hub? Despite
that, after the count was three to
one against us, we carried such
PIu1Ny usHI tual we Shoulu nave "oI
Vut ~ 'He elSHIH saihe Hau some Oh
our pIayerS .housht Tess OF me s"as
Eh9 more OF lAe paslline "heh We
hdu tHe argument Dasgeo.
Luck Against Matty.
Christv Mathewson never nitcbed
more sensational baII in ali his life
than ne showed the Huh last October
Three winning games we've all boote5
away. 7 didn't have near the e+uff
that the old veteran showed hut I
got away without extending myself
Somehow the bovs stood nm we'll he
hind me They sI,Ipoad the postop
pitchers and cIfrcbed Tho halle no
fore tbcy had beeu fairly started
Assuming mat the itbIetice and
Giants meet again in a counIe of
weeks for the highest donors in base.
ban wish to stats RIGHT here that
We viii have a n,cb battar chance ~
,yirniro than We mad two vears 400
rrnat go,s for mic oven ~ Cont.
Mack could boast tba came stranotb
now as Them He was Iucl,,, n rim,
40 i'm tg11
EVERY contest was battle from
start 10 finish slve the LAST ono W.
cracked wide oDen then. l think be
cause the Aihle'Ics-Whch was that
q
enjoyed one or those rare days on
W-ieh an pljcnlhg looked easy 10
ihem. NOBODY could have held them
III ChetK once lheN got started
minated above that the Athletics
n haa some i1ck 10 beat us Eliminat-
ing BAKERS nome runs, we would
I nave taken Jhelr measure great
4 .eai easier than session stopped us
last ran. Ihough we won only two
out or SIX games we gave mucn
petter account or ourselves than we
oid against tine Boston boys.
we should he able to play much
4 better tins fall than we played last
Tor, beileVe me- we were so terribly
n CT form that we would not have
fnlshed In the hrst DIVISION mad we
SHOWN no better speed all year
George Bur"A mas added great
srehslh 10 ca ouiHeld. what applles
4 10 Strun!1 n worlds series experience
goes also for Burns. But Murray and
+ Snodgrass are both seasoned men who
nave had the beneht OF TWO former
trials. Snodgrass had lot of tough
luck last year. Murray was the SEN
sation of the 1912 classic after falling
4 down badly against the Athletics.
McGraw's Batteries Best.
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