The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-18
CHANCE FORECASTS
GREAT STRUGGLE
Between Giants and Athletics for the
Worlds Champion Honors This Au-
tumn-It Will Depend Good
Deal on Early BREAKS"

New York, Aug. ls,-Basing his pre-
diction on the assumption that the Gil
ants and Athletics win be the contenders
Frank Chance forecasts a remarkable
struggle for worlds championship honors
this autumn.
"The leaders of the two leagues APP.
pear to be very evenly matched said
Chance in discussing the teams, "and
look for 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 series as important
and as short as the worlds champion
ship il has always proved very prom
inent factor. In all the series in which
have taken part it has always been
present. Sometimes the breaks came
our way and then again it helped the
other fellows, but ! never knew the time
when it didn't play leading part.
For that very reason | have always
held that seven game series between
two clubs of the calibre of the National
and American league pennant winners
was not as decisive as it should be.
Fully fifteen games would be necessary,
to my mind, to decide positively which
was the better club. Unfortunately, how
ever, such long -drawn-out series would
fail to hold interest Coming at the end
of seven months season, eighty per
cent OF the fans of the two cities would
lose interest in the play before the COM
pletion of the play. 1t has been suggest
ed that playing several OF the games
in cities other than those directly in
d 4,
have no doubt that Pittsburg, Chicago,
and Washington would turn out big
crowds for one game each, even though
the Athletics and Giants were the con-
tending teams. It's a difficult problem
to please both player and spectator, but
believe that eventually a more salts
factory method will be evolved for de-
Gliding the worlds championship"
1t Would Be Rubber"
Should the New York and Philadelphia
clubs win their respective league PEN
nants, the worlds series of 1918 will be
in the nature of rubber" At pres
ent each has worlds championship title
won at the expense of the other. The
Giants quickly nipped the championship
aspirations of the Athletics in their in
itial meeting of 1905. Under the direc-
tion OF McGraw, the New York team won
four of the five games played, all of
which were shut-outs. Six years later
Connie Mack secured his revenge for the
Athletics won four out of six games
from the Giants.
OF the players who engaged in the Sc
ries of 1905, Bender, Plank, Davis and
Murphy are still enrolled with the Ath.
letics, although the latter two are sell
dom in the regular line-pu. Mathewson
and Wiltse are the only Giants of those
days who still wear the New York uni.
form. Ii is singular feature of the
game that Bender and Mathewson, the
respective club heroes of 1905 series, are
still past masters of the art of pitch
ing, eight years after their initial clash,
and may face ep,h other during the play
next October, unless an eleyenth-hour
rush by one Of the other league clubs
upsets the predictions of the baseball
prophets. To date the worlds series has
been an excellent financial proposition
for the New York and Philadelphia clubs
and players. The two series Melted the
club owners S2l4,3s747 and the players
1856, 304.sl.