Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-30
SLAB POWER
SHOULD WIN
FOR CLAN rs
Cut Loose From "Past Perform
ance" Dope, McGraw's Clan
Has Best Chance.
BY O. B. Keller.
THE most artistic and popular

BY O. B. Keller.
THE most artistic and popular
plan Of committing yourself on
the Worlds Series is to frog up
prediction that will let you in,
either way after the dust has settled.
The Giants will win"
The Athletics will win"
If there is any Writing Guy with
: the hardihood to come out on his
two Flat Feet and say either one
Of those things, we haven't lamped
him yet
There always is an '1f' or other
Joker concealed somewhere about the
premises
HERE are some Of the ifs"
II If Doyle gets back in the
game
If Schang stands up under fire.
II this Is Murray's time to hit
If Bender hasn't gone back.
If Matty is as good as he was.
If Plank gets enough rest
II Marquard's collar is big enough
for him.
If Shawkey comes through.
If Snodgrass uses fiy-paper on his
glove
II the weather is dark, or clear. or
rainy or cold. or hot or anything
else.
I FT'S see-who had the ball?
l. Oh. yes-we had got as far as
TO say that either the Giants or the
Athletics would win the Worlds Sc
ries T.
That much appears fairly certain.
DON'T. No 2-It will be a matter of
pitchers, as any short series for
a big stake always has been and al
WAYS will be.
Point No. S-Past performance,
while IT supplies the only FACTS
that can be used in the controversy,
has nothing whatever to do with the
series beginning October 7.
Point No 3-A-Which means that
what Bender did to the Cubs and
the Giants in 1910 and 1911, or what
the Giants didn't do to Joe Wood or
Jack Coombs or Hugh Bedient in the
same years, won't win or lose any
games next week.
Point No. $50 it is purely a mat
ter of PRESENT ABILITY. PRES
ENT CONDITION, and PRESENT
CLASS.
ERON this distance ,sgd ,Titp only
/ cold type to loon VI, ehS giants
appear to he better fixed in the mat
ter of pitchers. / JExAHy
From which perhap ss faulty angle,
and on which possibly fallacious de-
duction our money Gf any goes on
AID no '4fs" about it, just for a
nhange,
7 ST lining it up. by way of reas-
surance. we have the opposing
slahbists listed this way:
Nathewson -. Bender
Narquard Plank
Tesreau Houck
Demaree shawkey
AID now an IF" that really isn't
"A an IF"
II we had written "Coombs" in
Mace Of Houck. that little list would
have been preceded by vastly dit
ferent lead.
The whsle viewpoint would have
been changed
The lead then would have read
something like this
THE best way to settle on a choice
for winner in the big series is to
fin a quarter. If you haven't one,
and can't borrow 1t. use something
else"
. THAT'S Just how much difference
the absence of the Iron Man
makes. in our humble opinion.
Now. Mr. Houck NAV arise and
smite that said Humble Opinion fair
" on the bugle and mash every yes
: rire Of a loot out of the same That
Is 1uite possible. in baseball That's
What makes baseball a Grand Old
Game.
But the thing is this:
No living human person, or dope
ster. or statistician can say what
form the opposing pitchers VIII show
in the coming series.
~. And past performance (orce more)
4 DOES NOT COUNT, except in the
line Of rated ability.
wv lat about the fielding?
w The Athletics have the sea
sons edge and the biggest reputation.
60 did the Cubs over the White Sox,
in 1905.
&, Tbz Athletics have the seal sons
margin. and the biggest reputation
So did the Cubs, in 1905.
And besides
The Athletics did not compile their
Il <
leon Narauard. Tesreau and Dema-
zee IL A WORLDS SERIES OF
/, THIS YEAR.
i, DAKER made a couple of home runs
( d in a worlds series against Mat
tv and Marquard. .
: That was in 1911, however,
Narquard wobbled and his collar
aray tight in a worlds series with
he Athletics
That was in 1911.
the Athletics hit Matty and Mar
- md Ames and Wiltse and
EMAIL harder than the Giants hit
Coornbs and Bender and Plank in
worlds series.
That was in 1911. And Coombs is
gone And Tesreau and Demaree
have come.
. fTARD hitting-weak hitting; isn't
ii ii largely a matter of strong