The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28
Worlds Greatest Player
Says That Coming Worlds
Series Will Be Hardest
Fought of Any Previous
One
BY TY COBB


tWorld's Greatest Baseball Pinyer)
Copyright, 1913, the Philadelphia Press
With the baseball season of 1913
nearing am end, it is definitely settled
that the Philadelphia Athletics of the
American league and the New York
Giants of the National league, will meet
in the worlds series. Every fan In
this great country of ours is puzzline
his brains trying to choose the win
ner; the sporting editors are resorting
to figures to compare the relative
strength of the teams. individually and
collectively. pages of dope" viii be
filled and presented to the public before
the umpire starts the first game of
the coming series.
Before delving into this great prob
of the greatest series ever, played and
that the attendance will probably be
greater than ever before The battles
will be staged In two of the largest
cities and situated close together in
two of the largest and finest ball parks
In the world. But the big attraction
will be that the two teams appear SO
evenly matched that I believe IT will
be toss-up which will win.
AS matter of fact I believe the rel
ative strength of the Athletics and
Giants. when they face each other for
the first game, will be more nearly
this great honor who have crossed bats
since the beginning of these baseball
classics.
Figures Don't Tell Much
Figures don't tell us very much about
the contesting clubs this year. AT least
believe that for the most part figures
Will have to be eliminated from our
attempt to analyze the possibilities Of
the coming struggles.
AT this time the contenders have
pretty near the same average In their
respective leagues. the Giants h&ving
the best of it by about 20 points. That
means both clubs have found the op-
position from the other seven in their
organization about equally strong. The
result is that neither team has run
away with the pennant
1t has been the usual case for one of
the pennant winners to capture the flag
rather easily, coming down the home
showed more strength than the cham
pions in the rival league. But this year
as all the fans will see things are more
equal, though the Giants have been
travelling at better pace than the
Athletics In the last month.
The Giants pitchers are performi
like pennant winning hurlers shouIc
and look dangerous for this years Sc
ries. On the other hand the Athletics
have been stumbling along, not show
ing the strength that they did in the
campaigns of 1910 and 1911.
Manager Mack will have a great
problem in picking the probable pitch
ing winners for the big games next
week.
Manager McGraw's task may be far
easier, for he will have Mathewson
Marquard, Tesreau and Demaree to
select from.
Athletics Pitchers Not Certain
The Athletics general will call upon
Chief Bender, Plank, Shawkey ana
Bush. Brown or Houck. To my way OF
thinking, Brown would be a mighty
good bet in this important series ii
his control was good. as l think he Is a
very effective pitcher. Shawkey can
be relied on to twirl jam-up game,
Bush has shown decided Improvement
and 1 believe. from experience, might
make trouble for New York IL started
OF course the Athletics have switched
pitchers frequently in games played
this year and the Judgment shown H.
the managerial moves has been good.
In the world series, however it seems
unlikely that either manager will de-