Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-23
GIANTS HAVE A
BETTER CHANCE
THAN MACKMEN
"Rube" Marquard Favors His
Team to Beat Athletics in
Worlds Series.
BY "Rube" Marquard.

Record for Consecutive Victories al
Nineteen Stdight)
7 LOOK for the greatest worlds Sc
ries of history this fall It's al
most a dead certainty that the
Giants and the Athletics will figure
as principals. ! could not conceive
two better matched contenders. I
am confident that my team will win.
We are about due, l think We
certainly are due for one triumph
out of three starts. Anybody VINO
saw us in action against the Athletics
jn 1911 and against the Red Sox in
1912, must admit that the luck broke
against us.
With any of the favors Of fortune
We would have won both those Sc
-ies. Home Run" Frank Baker took
the wind out of our sails in 1911. Two
pinch" home runs decided the issue
against US The Trappe sIuggeT
nicked me for one and Matty for the
other. Followers Of baseball will
realize the tiuky nature of such wal
Tops, AMI that is not said in a spirit
to detract in the least from the class
OF Connie Mack's aggregation.
We were not outplayed last fall
by the Red Sox Everything broke
Just right for Jake Stahrs Speed
Boys. Do you recoIlect that FIVE out
of the eight games were billed at
Fenway Park in the Hub? Despite
that, after the count was three TO
one against us. we carried such a
plucky fight that we should have wor
out in the eighth game had some of
our players thought less of the swag
and more OF the pastime when we
had the argument bagged.
Luck Against Matty.
Christy Mathewson never pitched
more sensational ball in all his life
than ne showed the Hub last October
Three winning games were all booted
away. | didn't have near the stuff
that the old veteran showed, but
got away without extending myself
Somehow the boys stood up we'll be-
hind me. They slugged the Boston
pitchers and Clinched the battle be-
fore they had been fairly started.
Assuming that the Athletics and
Giants meet again in a couple Of
weeks for the highest honors in base
bail, I wish to state right here that
N = VIII nave a Illut.l DtlleI tItuCe OF
winning than we had two years ago
That goes for me, even if Connie
Mack could boast the same strength
now Is then. He was lucky to trim
ia In 1911.
Every contest was a battle from
start to finish save the last one We
cracked wide open then. 7 think be-
cause the Athletics-which was that
year a numbering bunch Of swatters
-enioyed one of those rare days on
which all pitching looked easy to
them. Nobody could have held them
in check once they got started.
| intimated above that the Athletics
had some luck TO beat US. Eliminat-
ing Bakers home runs, we would
have taken their measure a great
deal easier than Boston stopped us
last fall. Though we won only two
out Of six games we gave a much
better account Of ourselves than we
did against the Boston boys.
We should be able to play much
better this fall than we played last
for, believe me, we were so terribly
off form that we would not have
finished in the first division had we
shown no better speed all year
George Burns has added great
strength to our outfield What applies
goes also for Burns. But Murray and
SnOdgrass are both seasoned men who
have had the benefit of two former
trials SnOdgrass had a lot of tough
luck last year, Murray was the SEN
satiOn Of the 1912 classic after falling
down badly against the Athletics.
McGraw's Batteries Best.
think our greatest strength lies
IN the batteries at McGraw's COM
mand. In this department we over
shadow Connie Mack. We outrank
him both in force of numbers and in
quality. Chief Meyers and Larry Nc
Lean form catching team that for
au-round merit will at least match
the very best pair of backstops that
Mack can start. I mean in handling
pitchers. throwing, holding up run
ners and hitting. our pitchers lay il
all over those Of the Athletics.
We have four experienced tossers
to two for Connie Mack. MathewsOn,
Tesreau, Fromme and myself will all
he in shape when the big blow of
arrives I eliminate Demaree-one Of
the very best pitchers that ever
grasped a baseball-trom these calCu-
lations. I stand ready to stack him
up against Shawkey, Bush or Brown
any day.
Dcmarec is one Of the wisest and
coolest boymeu ! ever saw. He may
rut big figure in the post season
games. ! give the veterans prefer
ence simply because it is the custom
for managers 20 bank on tried men In
such important engagements.
Render and Plank have been away
off form throughout the past two
months. Mack has had to work them
10 death cIfrrhinE the remnant. In