The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-21
IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

ne no question about any lack OF heart
or spirit. The Giants of these last
tnree years were never a great bail
! club or one approaching G~reatness--
In physical skill. They were victors
IN their W league-not through any
heads or legs, but because in their
league as a club they trained better,
hustled and Ought harder, were INC re
Go~nsclentlous II more loyal in carry
ing out their work-and because in
Mccraw they had a leader who held
tnem together and carried them at top
ney. ~
Giant" Clean Living Lot.
We know how certain essential con-
dltlons ruled among the Giants, and
how they were neglected among other
rival clubs. We know how cleanlv
Mc0raWs club lived n how hard his
men all fought, and we know among
other clubs how certain men broke
framing, how certain stars were care
iess and indifferent in their play. and
now certain essentials toward success
were blurred out by individual dis
Ioyalties and indulgences. But while
ms feature was at work among other
rival clubs, the Giants, without n
and St errat FIR Il ness with the bat
ana won because they worked hard
ana long and kept in the game up to
tthh edr Soaps, and because, somewhat
Atst Lie 1oydlLy MCITdW was u.s.
ing MS material with far greater e.
lect than others with better material
we're able to show. The Clients won
because they fought their best against
only IN certain isolated spots. And
we say for them we believe this is a
greater tribute than to be acclaimed
as a wonderful pail club,
About Giant Pitchers.
Inc Giants, without any excellence
as a club ave in speed and steady
pitching, won because they made base
pail a business and not the occasion
FOR a JOY ride. They deserved their
success all the more because thew
earned 1t by producing more from less
70 start with: But having won in their
own league by this system, they faced
IN the Athletics a ball club that was
every whit as loyal to the training
pr1ncsPres or the game-and one that
was stronger in all other ways. This
5ltne they were no longer meeting care
less temperamental, slip-shod comne-
f fa1Q who PLAYED ball only when they
earnest, hustling machine that was sIr
SO better equipped for the part in other
ways. From the start the onlv mat.
Ter or doubt that existed was erected
Ground the pitchers. We know that
Connie had by all odds the better bali
club, but we thought McGraw had ali
me best of 1T in pitching. And despite
une answer rendered in the service if
we owned a ball club and were offered
bender, Plank and Bush, or Mathewson
M~arquard Tesreau and Demaree. we'd
Jump Tor the latter contingent without
a breath's delay.
Giants Not In Glass.
In this series Mack showed far and
away The better world series pitching,
Tor where Marquard, Tesreau and De-
maree fell badly away, Bender. Rush
and Plank rose to the occa sion-es-
pec1aLly Bush and Plank, as Bender
vas a known quantity, while Plank in
~ oWn eagu hadn't worked two
one expected to see Marquard Or Tes-I
reau stop the Mackmen short pitching
smut out ball, but on the other hand
no one expected them to be clouted all
over the lot. When McGraw was un-
ape to show his expected margin in
the oox 1s cause was doomed. In 9th
er respects there. was no omparison,
for lined up side by side of the other
eight regulars not a man from the
giants could make the Athletic team
oy s~upplanting some rival. This as
ser1lon Is a trif1e sweeping. But If you
VIII pick out the best man on the Giantl
team outside Of the box and what Ath- |
tet1c star would you push aside?
Icnang Tor Meyers or Mclean? No. NC
NIX. Barry for Fletcher? No. Baker
f0r Herzog or Shafer? Equally not.
Oldring for Burns? Again nit. StrunE
19r or Shafer or Murphy for
no vast difference In the two outfeM1ddss
nor in the work of Schang and No
Lean back of the bat. It was no
margin ma r here that settled the issue. But
through the immense margin Of The
tWo infelds, built up in the main bv
the presence Of those two inimitables
noole Colllns and John Franklin Bak-
Rival InfieIds Decided Series.
rake for comparative the
showing Of Collins and Baker VS.. Dovle
and Herzog in two spots of play. Col
Inns batted .421, Doyle $50; Baker bat
ted .46O, Herzog .053. Collins and Bak-
er together piled up 7 runs and II
nlts: They drove in nine runs more,
90 tney We're responsible for 16 runs
enc ~ hits. Against this Doyle and
Tn1eer1os scored two runs and four hits.
Doyle drove in another run, making
Inem responsible for three runs against
Tor hits against IT. No one, of
f Iourse, could In any way blame the
pmere were too many others involved.
II the two casts had been exactly
equai IN the other seven spots, here ia
an Athletlc margin of two men against
runs and 13 hits. You can figure again
Tor yourself what a surplus of Is runs
would mean in a. series OF five pames
&c Collins and Baker Best Players.
Ieam FOR team, the Athletic margin
IN hlts was 10 and in runs 8; and this
margin was furnished by the two
greatest world series players ever
known-Collins and Baker. Both in
three world series stars are batting
over 400, which is remarkable When
1T isN remembered that on these &C.
caslons stars of the past have usually
p below he normal. Speakers
World series average is 300 in eight
games; Wagner's 1863 in Is games;
Goob's .261; Zimmerman's only .222'
BUT mere are Collins and Baker out be-
yotnd 400 for three years' play in the
pig money stakes. Collins may have
faltered in 1911, but in 1913 he showed
mat ne must be given Hans Wagner's
piace as the most valuable ball player
or baseball. flesh for team value on. the
market, unless 1t be Walter Johnson.
Observation-Disclosures.
In closing there was one bis. FEATURE
crowded all others to the offside
In 1905, eight years ago. Math-
ewson and Bender won four of the
five victories established, with Plank
IN the thick of the fire. In, 1918, eight
years later, with all other regulars
and vanished. Mathewson,
the five victories won. Bender on Fri
won his fourth consecutive world
series, While Matl1ewson and Plank, the
Two veteran pitchers of the game, gave
the two greatest exhibitions of mound
work ever seen. It was somethingi
more than wonderful-it was black
stuff for a man of &C
and another of 33 who had been carry
ing pitching burdens for 10 years. to
TAKE youth again by the scruff of the