Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-13
BETTER TEAM WON SERIES
IS CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS
MathewsOn, However, More Than Held His Own
While Pitchers Upon Whom Giants
Depended Fell Down.
ATHLETICS LEADERS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT

Connie Mack's wonderful baseball
ship has struck against the rocks of
time and is swiftly sinking. There is
no hope for Mack's once magnificent
machine-it is a decrepit old wreck.
Mack's once marvellous contrivance
lost one game out of five to the New
York Giants and won the worlds
championship title this season with
percentage of 800. Furthermore
the Athletics in the game they lost to
the Giants had ten rounds in which
to win it, and failed to score a single
run. That proves that the Mackmen
have slipped back woefuliy, or else
the series was fixed
Connie will have to start right in
Immediately laying foundations for a
new team How can he expect to win
again with a combination that had a
team batting average of only .270 in
the worlds series, and a pitching staff
that has an old man like Plank, who
could only win one game out OF the
pair he pitched? Yes, Connie has a
white elephant" ON his hands-but
that white elephant is Just about as
sacred to Philadelphia fans as the
real immaculate pachyderm wor-
SHIPPED by our Far Eastern brothers
is to the pious Orientals.
Cheer UP, Johnny McGraw and ye
poor Giants. Remember that next
season is another year and be thank
full you don't belong to the Ameri-
can League and you won't have to
face Mack's team in q ring of twenty
two battles.
The worlds series of 1918 was a
ripper. Though the Giants fought
gamely they seemed to know that the
jig was up after that third game. The
only thing close about the entire
series were the scores of a couple
games. individually almost man for
man the Giants were outclassed. OF
course the McGrawites were crippled
by the absence of Snodgrass, by Mer-
kle's injuries and by Meyerss inca
pacitation. But the pitching staff,
the Giants to victory was intact and
when Tesreau and Marquard fell
down the Giants went down with
them. Mathewson was the Matty of
old; he should not have been scored
on three times Saturday, but even
Matty could not play the whole game
himself and Merkle's costly inability
to think quickly spilled the beans.
The Athletics were out in front
most of the time and could afford to
take the chances where the Giants
could not, they were able to take
chances. particularly In the fourth
game of the series. Friday. at Phila-
delphia. Take for instance that catch
which OIdring made on Mccormick
His team had lead of something like
six runs at the time and the Giants
had runners on third and first bases
with one down. Now If the game were
close Oldring would not have dared
take the chance he did when he
rushed in to make catch of McCor-
mick's low liner, He took a fearful
chance, for had the ball escaped him
two runs would surely have scored.
But two runs for the Giants would
have been puny besides the Athletics
six-run lead in that game He took
the chance and got away with 1t.
That's why things always seem to
break with the team that gets the
lead
Connie Mack's boys ouUbatted and
outf1elded the Giants. Their pitchers
cid better work. and they scored
.tWenty- three runs to the Giants f1f-
teen. At that the McGrawites made
a better showing than two years ago,
when they got only thirteen In six
games, whereas this season they
slugged hard enough to make TWO
more runs in one lass game-proving
that Mack's team has slipped. Two
seasons ago the Athletics scored TWEEN
ty-six times, while this year they
crossed the plate only twenty-five
times. Surely the Mackmen are slip
ping, they are going down just like
the cost of living, going down with
reverse English" as 1t were, and
they will probably be able to hold the
belt against all corners for little
while longer If they get the breaks.
The Athletics look like the best team
that ever won a worlds champion
ship.
More than one dopester was fooled
on the outcome of the series. When