Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-02


leaders in a worlds series are just
as important 1t is up to the
manager to plan the game. and it is
up to the players to execute. If you
plan poorly. all the great men in the
baseball world wouldn't pull your
team out a winner. There is much to
do before the game starts, and there
are smart things to do when the
game is on. 1t is the manager who
manages best. with other things
equal. who generally comes out on
TOP. 1t has been so that the better
team. with a not particularly brill
liant manager. has won out, as COM
pared to a brilliant manager with a
not particularly brilliant team. Such
was the case last year. Jake Stahl
had the better team last year-the
better team by a long shot-yet he
came within an ace of being beaten
out by Manager McGraw and his
Giants. for the simple reason THAI
McGraw was the better general, the
gamer general, and he almost drove
the better team TO rout.
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As between Boston and New York.
when the series was started why it
was all Stahl and his Red SoX, but
before the championship had been
decided McGraw and his Giants
forced their superior rivals up against
the fence and figura lively choked
them to death. The Giants were
beaten. but McGraw. with a poorer
ball team. by his superior, aggressive
efforts. came within the proverbial
ace of winning the series.
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For this years series we again
have McGraw and his Giants, but
opposed to them We now have Mr..
Connie Mack and his Philadelphia
Athletics. Some aggregation we all
must admit. Thus when it comes
to managers there need be little
figuring. Perhaps. because of his
aggressiVeness, McGraw will be given
the call. He is the Roaring Bull
Of the managerial brigade-the
scrappy man of the bench warmers.
Mack, on the other hand, is the
silent Man" He says little, but
thinks deep, and his judgment is
admitted to be inferior to no one in
the game. To back him up he has
a wonderful machine of ball players
the best in the world most everybody
says So that's why McGraw and
the Giants and Mack and the Ath-
letics are looked upon as such an
even proposition.
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As between the teams as a whole
the Athletics look to be the stronger.
AS batters and f1elders they surely
shine. In the minds of the dopesters
down to the battery-down to the
pitchers-that is where the Giants
excel. In the minds of the dopesters
the series at hand is a question
whether the great pitching staff of
the Giants can stop the great batting
army of the Athletics or whether the
great batting army of the Athletics
will slaughter the great pitching
staff of the Giants. That's just what
would like to know, what I would
like to be able to tell my readers.
But how are you going to find it out
when the men themselves don't know?
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With only two teams to pick from,
it looks like a moral to name the
winner. You can say the Giants and
you can say the Athletics, but for
the life of you. it seems, you cannot
decide on either. 1t appears so sim
pie, so easy, and yet no one is bold
enough to be certain. The big betting
men who dope things down to GER
tainty are all at sea- They are max
ing the prices so that the odds are
in their favor no matter which way
the series goes. The "bookies" are
laying to 6 and give you your pick.
Thus the Giants admirers are betting
6 to that the Giants win and the Attn
letics admirers are betting to the
Athletics win, that is. of course, If
they are putting up their money with
the big fellows over in New York
That shows how really even it is,
when the "bookies" insist on taking
odds from both sides. AS between
even money, with some going to 3
on the Giants.
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A few of the Newark ball players,
am told, were not entirely satisfied
with the amount of money contributed
by the citizens of this city, and while
on lark the other night said some
nasty things about the world in gen.
eral. AS far as the citizens Of New
ark doing well by the boys, it might
be mentioned that the division in
Rochester was 1851 each, the division
in Toronto was less than $50 each, and
the division in rotten old Newark"
as some of the players referred to the
city, was s191, 1t was ever thus. And
for my pains, a delightful fan adj
monished me in the following man
ner:
j. P. N:
You ask US to look over the column
and see II any names are not there,
that we think ought to be there. /
don't see your name. Do you think
because you accept contributions you
win be excused? Nay, put yourself
down and see the rest follow
Yours in good feeling, G. K. S.
While on the subject of the Newark
club, it might be remarked that who
ever is in control of the situation here
next season will have his own