The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
YOUNG PITCHERS
Giants and Athletics Forced to
Rely on NOviceS.
Old Stars Are Eliminated and
Inexperienced Men Follow.

New York, Oct. 9-With a victory
safely tucked away for each club,
Giants and Athletics prepared today for
the third contest for the worlds cham
pionship, each in confidence that the
break this afternoon would open the
road to victory in the series. The only
doleful note this morning was from the
weather bureau, which insisted upon
the probability of more rain.
Filled with far greater assurances
than on the opening day before the
teams had tested each others mettle,
New York-fans began to flock to the
ground as soon as it appeared that the
weather was clearing. The crowds
were enthusiastic and optimistic. The
wonderful pitching of the great Math-
ewson yesterday and the fine way his
mates had rallied to his support and,
with a crippled team, prevented a sin
gle Philadelpnian from reaching the
plate, had worked wonders with the
spirit of the club followers. On the
other hand Philadelphians were in no
wise dismayed by the defeat their
team had sustained in the first game
a Shibe park. Again. as in the first
game he worked in the 1911 series, the
veteran Mathewson had been too much
for the Mack men, but they and their
partisans recalled that they had hit
him freely on other occasions two years
ago. Tesreau and Demaree one of
whom McGraw was expected to start
today, are practically strangers to the
White Elephants, but a Philadelphia
who did not confidently expect the
clouters of his club to solve the shoots
of either of these marks'nen with lit
tie difficulty was a rare individual to-
day on the highways and by-ways that
lead to the Brush studium.
Star Pitchers Eliminated.
The argument from a Giant point of
view was different one. Freely voiced
by New York supporters in before-the-
game discussions, it held that with
both Bender and Plank temporarily set
aside and Mathewson and Marquard
out of the reckoning for the moment,
the twirlerS McGraW had left to rely
upon far outclassed those upon whom
Connie Mack could draw. In number
of availables, the superiority lay with
Mack, who had given seasons hard
work to the schooling of Brown, Bush,
Houck and Shawkey, and by working
them through when fit and in relays
when the acting twirler began to show
signs of waVering, successfully pulled
out game after game in the regular
season. New Workers, however claimed
that McGraw was far ahead with Tes-
reau, a man who has been through the
fire of worlds series and who showed
so brilliantly in the few innings he
pitched Tuesday at the Polo
grounds, and Demaree, a leader among
this years National league twirlers and
cool and dependable in a crisis. 1t was
just these deba ia BILE problems-wheth-
er the colts of the Mack men could
stand up against the batters of the
Giants and whether Demaree and Tes-
reau could do as well against Baker
and Collins and the other hard hitters
among the Athletics they have
against National league sluggers-that
a ma raDt1y uere n find ct ma ia
solution at the Polo grounds on this
third day of the series Mana ger Nc
Graw himself was not slow to express
the confidence as to how this problem
would work out.
Both Managers Expect to Win.
In comparison with what our op-
po1entS have left, my remaining pitch