The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-16
CHANGE OUTLINES
 BETTER METHOD
 PICK THE CHAMPS

New York, Aug. 16.-Basing his prediction on the assumption that the Giants and Athletics will be contend CTS. Frank Chance forecasts a re- nnarkable struggle for worlds cham p1onsfaip honors this autumn
 The leaders of the two leagues ap- pear to be very evenly matched" said Chance, in discussing the teams. land I look for a very close, exciting series In my opinion the winning club will be the one that gets the early breaks in the play You can't eliminate the breaks in baseball, and in a series as important and as short as the worlds championship. it has always proved a very prominent factor In all the ser ies in which I have taken part it has always been present. Sometimes the breaks came our way and then again it helped the other fellows, but nev- CT knew the time when it didn't play a leading part
 For that very reason I have -alvyavs held that a seven game series be- tween two clubs of the ca1fbre of the National and American League pen nant winners was not as decisive as fE should be. Fully fifteen games would be necessary, to my mind to decide positively which was the better club Unfortunately, however, such a long drawn out series would fail to hold in terest. Coming at the end of a seven months season eighty per cent of the fans of the two cities would lose inter est in the play before the completion of the play. It has been suggested that playing several of the games in cities other than those directly inter ested might solve this problem have no doubt that Pittsburgh, Chi cago and Washington would turn out big crowds for one game each, even though the Athletics a11d Giants We're the contendingi teamsi It's a difHcG1t problem to please both player and spectator, but I believe that eventu- ally a more satisfactory method will be evolved for deciding the worlds championship
 Should the New York and Philadei- phia clubs win their respective league pehnants, the worlds series of 1913 will be in the nature of a, rubber" At present each has a worlds champion ship title won at the expense of the other. The Giants quickly nfpped the championship aspirations of the Athletics in their initial meeting of 1905. Under the direction of Me Graw the New York team won four of the five games played, all of which were shut-outs. Six years later Con nie Mack secured his revenge for the Athletics won four out of six games from the Giants.
 Of the players who engaged In the series of 1905, Bender, Plank, Davis and Murphy are still enrolled with the Athletics, although the latter two are seldom in the regular lineup Mathewson and Wiltse are the only Giants of those days who. still wear the New York uniform. It is a sin- guIar feature of the game that Bender and Mathewson, the respective club heroes of 1905 series, are still past masters of the art of pitching, eight wears after their initial clash and may face each other during the play next October unless an eleventh-hour rush by one of the other league clubs up- sets the predictions of the baseball prophets To date the worlds series has been an excellent financial prop osttfon for the New York and Phila- delphia clubs and players The two series netted the club owners $2l4s- 3s7.47 and the players 'S155, ,SO4.s1-