Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-06
READY TO BEGIN PERFORMANCE
INFIRST WORLDS SERIES GAME
Rainy Weathe Only Thing Which Can Mar the
Success First Battle Between Giants
and athletics at Polo Grounds.
OPINIONS VARY ON OUTCOME OF THE SERIES

Promptly at o'clock tomorrow aft
ernoon an individual CARRIED In a blue
uniform and decorated with chest pro-
tector and mask will dust off the
home plate at the Polo Grounds with
his little whisk- broom, nine husky
and athletic looking individuals wear
ing New York across their bosoms
will take the field, and a visiting
batsman, probably Eddie Murph7s
rugged up in Philadelphia treEsnng
uniform, will swing his b..
PLAY BALL" will be heard all over
the field, the fans will settle back in
their seats and the big series will be
on.
Tens Of thousands will be huddled
around the vast arena, providing the
weather man does not interfere, while
hundreds of thousands less Fortunate
through the length and breadth of
the land will be informed of every
move by q network of wires stretch
ing like a cobweb to all points of the
compass from the Polo Grounds. Il
is the annual baseball classic of the
year.
Everybody has his favorite, no
matter how bipartisan he may claim
to be. Some are lacking in the cour-
age to make a positive prediction;
others are intrepid enough to proph-
esy positively on one team or the
other. The real dope Is just this: The
| Giants have the pitchers, the Ath-
letics the batters. II the Athletics
had the pitchers as good as their
general machine there would be no
doubt about the winners. The fact
| that McGraw's men have the better
of the pitching argument evens
things up. 1t should be close series,
almost as close as last year, when
eight games were played before one
team got the decision.
There are scores of questions which
will be decided in that. first game.
First of all:
1. Is Bender as good as when he
first met Matty in the last Giant
Athletic series?
2. Can Baker maintain his home run
reputation?
8. What course will the Giant pitch
ers pursue in pitching to Baker in the
pinches?
4. win the Giant defense wobble
again on the sharp attack of the
enemies batters?
5. Has Plank rested sufficiently TO
recuperate from the strain which
pulled him down in mid-season?
The dope shows that the Athletics
have made $50 more runs than their
opponents during the season. This, OF
course, may be discounted by the
! fact that the Giants and the Ath-
letics were not in the same league
In the predictions gathered from
| baseball men, newspaper experts and
prominent fans the country over,
| there seems to be a slight tendency
to favor the Giants-that is, those
who pick McGraw's men to win are
slightly more in evidence than those
who are standing pat on the Athlet-
les. Those who pick the Mackmen,
of course, found their predictions on
McGraw's pitchers. The Athletics,
however, it must be remembered,
have a habit of coming through
strongest in the pinches, a faculty
| which has spelled success to them
Their machine, as whole. seems as
good as the 1911 combination, and
has not shown any signs of cracking
McGraw's team should have i'm
proved In that time. but II did moi
show ii last season. In fact, Nc
Graw's defense was worse last sea-
son than the year before.
: Records show that the Athletics
scored something like twenty-seven
runs against the Giants thirteen the
last time they met
Two years ago Mack's men more
than doubled New York's score. New
York has not improved as rum
making machine. 1t would be i'm
possible for the Giants to do any