The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-10-05


cluBion drawn from my personal OBJ
servations OF the two contenders, the
Athletics and Giants in action. to-
g1tl1er with an aforegained knowledge
OF the dope. say. without hesitation.
that the Athletics should win the 1913
worlds series and my opinion is they
win
The writer experts opinions here
and III Philadelphia differ Some dyed
IN tbs wool American league follow
ers are on the Nationals and vice
versa The bone OF contention is the
supposed weakness OF Connie Mack's
pitching star.
I have seen each one OF the several
pitchers work and Comics choice
should be Bender for the opening
game. II he wins, and believe he
will Shawkey has first choice for the
next game. with Brown as the second
choice. Plank win pitch the next
game In New York and Bush will
proDably be given try-out next.
For New York Marquard will
open the series. followed by Mathew
SON IN Phfladelphia and Denaree for
the next game IN New York with Tes-
reau In reserve. Mack has several
surprises IN store for the Giants. I
can tell you one. Bender has devel-
oped q slow fade-away that is even
more delusive than Matty's, but, omit
ting that, he Is sure to give the Giants
plenty OF trouble The Giants are in
their stride right now but McGraw
may make an unexpected shift. viz:
send Herzog to third and play Shafer
IN center in place Of Snodgrass.
really expect him to do this. The
Athletics are still driving them where
they amt and are ID prime condition
also.
The Greatest Series.
think this will be the largest at
tended and greatest series ever played.
In 19o5 the Giants wal1ope6 the Ath-
1etics and in 1911 Crafty Connie turned |
the trick on McGraw. That makes 1t |
one each, and the team which wins
this season ID going to so some, or
u1isa my guess
both the Athletics and Giants cinch- |
ed thsy pennant early enough to give
their players al the rest desired, and
some eE them surely needed 1T. Con-
ME Thinks his whole team is on a fine
edge and has given them q full weeks /
rest. with three days final tuning /
Mo9raw 10 doing the same thing with T
his team, AID on Tuesday afternoon I
every player should be in first class
condftfcn
There IL very little to choose be-
MASTER
going to- handle this series. 1t all de- +
pends Oh the pcinr OF view. Both Mack
and MeGraw have their followers. and
each IL his way Is the greatest the
gains han produced What's the diff
8erenc6 between cracking a safe with
u s1sdge hammer or o Damascus blade
Il the result 10 the same? Connie al
wayB directs the game from the bench
ana tie unpires are never bothered
BY any Of his kicks. He Is cool and
celebrating and has q reputation of
never letting anything valuable get by
him. McGraw, ON the other hand. Is
out on the coaching line all the time.
depending on his own foresight to win
the game ard he has put quite few
hundred to his credit on snap judy
ment.
Must Get First Game.
I agree with Ty Cobb when he
says much depends on that first game
Believe that the Athletics have got
to win this initial game to win the
series r. they lose it Mack will have
pretty small chance Of putting
winner over. still I believe they can
win 1t and stfl lose the series-that
ds lie one OF the youngsters fails to
show anything. New York on the
other hand can lose this first game
and Still have three All men to fall
back on to deliver the goods. That
gives McGraw to / shot over Mack
on the other games.
My opini0n has always been that
Chief Bender Is the greatest one game
pitcher IN the world. With weeks
rest It's going to be some game, too.
The chief worked In three games in
1911 and the Chants scored two runs
of him each time. It's q lead pipe
cinch that the wrecking crew OF Con-
MES IL gelng ftt get ut least two runs
of any pitcher McGraw puts In Can
McGrawss men elo better against Bend
er this year2
Al comparison or the catching shows:
Meyers has fallen or ~ points In his
hitting since 1911, Is hitting the left
handlers nardsr than the right hand
ffinsers. and on all around work hits
any kind OF pftching. The big chief |
II stfil improving his work and it's got
10 be a fast team to steal an average
or d Base D game on him. think !
McGraw viii use him exclusively in
the series.
Sailing Ira Thomas is Comics best
bst. He has been used very little this ;
year and Is being carefully groomed
for this series. Ira has been slamming |
them out on the same averages as
hefstofore His throwing arm Is not
quite as good as Meyers. and he hits
about so points less. Lapp has fallen
down badly II hitting. from an aver
age OF .s5s he has dropped to -2Is. I
He's pegging on the same average as ]
Thomas Schang Is Mack's find this
year The kid has certainly developed
fast. B4ts either right, or left handed. Il
and Slaxns them out against the best
ptteh1ng I'll the lssgsfs. He pegs bet !
ter shan Thomas and Lapp. and ex-