Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-04

series isn't an easy task by any
means-not this year On previous
occasions it has been a case of one
team sticking out over another and
all you had to do was to say this
team is going to win and few there
were who would dispute it. Now,
however, no matter which team you
name to win the series, some one
much smarter than yourself will tell
you, right to your face, that you are
all wrong. That, of course, gets you
angry and if You happen to be
wrong in the end you naturally feel
very grieved over the matter. So,
you see. dear readers, it is not what
you suffer beforehand, but the worry
you have between times and the
humiliation you endure afterward.
That's what makes it so hard to pick
a worlds series winner.
G
This fan or that fan can, of course,
say this team or that team will win,
and if that team doesn't win they can
simply say forget it. Not so with the
experts-the men who are supposed
to know. Everything they say. every
thing they do, goes on records put
in cold type, They can't say Forget
it," and let it go at that. and they
don't say so, either. Those who are
successful, you may have observed,
| if they happen to be big men with
broad minds, are generally very mod
est in their victory. Some of the
small fry foot their horns and make
much ado about nothing" But the
student, the person who figures out
to the best of his ability the probable
winner of a great contest, is natural
! ly anxious that his figures and his
| judgment prove superior If he fails
he has rare consolation that he has
done his best to arrive at the right
conclusions, and he hasn't anything
| to accuse himself of on that score.
! G
| Yet picking a winner OF a worlds
| series seems to be such simple
thing, The Athletics and the Giants
are playing and one of them must
win and why isn't it an easy matter
| to select the one which will win! 1t
is an easy matter to select a winner
| when you select the winner, but you
! who have not been used to selecting
! losers will never know the difficult
| job it is to pick a winner. Goodness
| knows l always try-always do my
/ very best-to give my readers the
first and best in everything and that
1 sometimes fail is no fault of mine.
C
| My selection for the worlds series
this year is the Philadelphia Club
rs against the New York Club. My
selection last year was the Boston
| Club as against the New York Club
| The year before it was the New York
/ Club as against the Philadelphia
! Club, which, in three years, gives
me a percentage of .667. These few
facts are printed to show that I am
not always against the Giants. as
some of the fans might suppose.
/ However, that is neither here nor
there. The question is What about
the series at hand? Who is going
to win it? In naming the Athletics
as the likely winners / have done so
after much careful thought and seri-
Gus consideration. The Mackmen APP
! peal to me because, in my opinion.
they will make the most runs and
runs are what count in baseball
/ games.
G
In picking the Athletics. I'm not
overlooking the Giants in the least.
/ John McGraw has a great ball team
and his men are sure to show him
/ long, hard, game run for the cham
pionship, but anyway YOU figure the
teams, man for man, or as a com
/ posite subject, there isn't a single
! thing that would lead you to believe
I that the Giants would beat the Ath-
letics. We have gone over the pitch
( ing departments Of both clubs and
J we have given the honors to the New
York club. but after we had finished
with the Athletics as whole We sim
ply couldn't make them be worse than
| first in the win column. We know
| that Matty will be there doing his
/ best, but we feel that his old sting
! isn't there and that Baker and Col
/ Inns and McInnis and Oldring will
batter down his wall We know that
| Vanguard will be there, and of all the
| Giants pitchers we feel that the RUDE
will be the most effective against the
/ MacSmen. AS a left-hander he will
have big advantage over the great
left-handers on the Athletics-Baker.
Collins, Strunk-afld over Sehang, too,
Notwithstanding that this star catcher
can bat from either. side of the plate.
! So, as to the pitchers, if the Athletics
are beaten, it will most likely be by
Marquard, who pitched so we'll against
! Boston last year. Matty will not find
any fear in the Athletics hearts this
time and as for Tesreau. he is likely
to be the one most slaughtered. Dem
aree would surprise no one If he turned
out to be sensation. Yes, the Giants
have the pitchers, but the Athletics
have a way of bea ting good pitching.
@
The Athletics to beat the Giants is
the dope, and the betting is changing
to that side Of the house with rush.
EsIY1XTT1YYIY1