The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-28
DOPESTERS HAVE
GIANTS beaten
Are Recording their Down
fall Long Before Curtain
Has Gone up on Fight.

Up to date many baseball critics
have gone on record in picking the
winners Of the big league remnants
a majority of the dopesters fail to pick
the Giants and the Red Sox to repeat
their 1912 records. In the National
league the pickers give the Pittsburgh
Pirates the call over the Giants and in
the American league the Athletics are
big favorites over the Red Sox.
So far AS the Giants are concerned.
it is fashionable for writers all over
the circuit to belittle the Giants at ev-
dopeSters the Pirates will zeal Me-
Graw's men out because the wish is
father to the thought John Nc
Graw's remarkable ability as a base
ball general n a handler of men is
conceded by all. 1t is also admitted
that the Giants are fast on the bases.
The figures show their vast superiority
on the base paths to any other team
in the league. So far as the Pirates
stole 319 bases last season to ia for
Fred Clarke's men. That handicap
alone is enough to account for one
half of The ten games that separated
the teams at the end of last season.
Max Carey stole forty-five bases and
Hans Wagner &c. Following are the
figures of the leading %purloiners among
the Giants: Snodgrass stole As, Murray
3s. Merkle 81. Herzog %, Doyle SO,
Devore %.
Some of the dopesters in forming
their opinions figured that the loss to
the Giants Of RUDE Marquard would
be a heavy blow. That line of dope
is Knocked out by the fact that Mar
guard will be with the team next sea-
son. Tessreau's increased ability is
admitted. Mathewson is able to keep
up his end. Leon Ames is coming back
with an %up-to-date spitball. the life
v of many a going twirler. One
picker calls Matty a fading star"
did not show that he was fading. Ev-
erybody knows the history of that
horrible game in Boston on October
16 last. With Crandall, wiltse and
Demaree in reserve. the staff looks as
good as the Pittsburgh outft-Hen-
dryx O'Toole. Camnitz. Robinson and
Adams. Last year the Giants beat
the Pirates twelve games to eight in
their series. Those figures wouldn't
show that the Pirate fingers have any
thing on McGraw's hurlers.
AS for the catchers. Chief Meyers.
they say. is slow. George Gibson did
the bulk Of the Pirates catching last
year and will the coming season. No
body ever accused the stocky Pirate
Of being a speed merchant. The In
dian in 1876 games outhit the Cana
Ola 1853 per cent to .240 per cent in
IS games.
1t is considered good form in the
west to say, THE Giants are about the
weakest fielding and most uncertain
defensive in the league" and
that luck had more to do with their
winning the pennant than ability. TAX
ing out the only Hans Wagner it is
hard to see where the Pirates infeld
has anything on McGraw's inner a r
deners: The trophy committee voted
last fall that Larry Doyle was the most
useful player to his team in the lea
que. and he is. And Charley Herzog
is a close second.
"And then remember this" says
n critic who does not throw bou-
quets at the team. "The career Of the
New York club is a living and constant
illustration Of the. extreme value of a
good manager to a ball, club and the
absolute necessity Of getting a man
who will I'll a team with Judgment