Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-30
SLAB POWER
SHOULD WIN
FOR CLAN s
Cut Loose From "Past Perform
ance" Dope, McGraw's Clan
Has Best Chance.
By o. B. Keller.


plan of committing yourself on
the Worlds Series is to frog up
prediction that will let you in,
either way, after the dust has settled.
The Giants will win"
The Athletics will win"
If there Is any Writing Guy with
the hardihood to come out on his
two Flat Feet and say either one
of those things, we haven't lamped
him yet.
There always is an "if' or other
joker concealed somewhere about the
premises
HERE are some of the ifs"
II If Doyle gets back in the
game
If Schang stands up under fire.
If this is Murray's time to hit.
If Bender hasn't gone back.
II Matty is as good as he was.
If Plank gets enough rest.
If Marquard's collar is big enough
for him.
If Shawkey comes through.
If Snodgrass uses fiy-paper on his
glove.
II the weather is dark, or clear or
rainy, or cold, or hot, or anything
else.
I ET'S see-who had the ball7
l. Oh. yes-we had got as far as
TO say that either the Giants or the
Athletics would win the Worlds Sc
ries.
That much appears fairly certain.
DON'T No 2-It will be a matter of
pitchers, as any short series for
big stake always has been and al
WAYS will be.
Point No. 3-Past performance.
while it supplies the only FACTS
that can be used in the controversy,
has nothing whatever to do with the
series beginning October I.
Point No S-A-Which means that
what Bender did to the Cubs and
the Giants in 1910 and 1911, or what
the Giants didn't do to Joe Wood or
Jack CoOmbs or Hugh Bedient In the
same years, won't win or lose any
games next week.
Point No. $50 it is purely mat
ter Of PRESENT ABILITY. PRES
ENT CONDITION, and PRESENT
CLASS.
IRON this distance. and with only
1 cold type to look at, the Giants
appear TO b. better fixed In the mat
ter of pitchers.
y
and on which possibly fallacious de-
duction. our money (if any goes on
the Giants.
And no ifs" about it, just for
change.
lust lining it up, by way of reas
surance we have the opposing
slabbists listed this way:
Mathewson Bender
I'd nj
Tesreau Houck
Demaree e.. shawkey
AND now an 'if' that really isn't
- an If"
If we had written "Coombs" in
place of Houck. that little list would
have been preceded by vastly diff
ferent lead
The whole viewpoint would have
been changed.
The lead then would have read
something like this:
The best way to settle on a choice
for winner in the big series is to
flip up a quarter If you haven't one
and can't borrow il. use something
else
THAT'S Just how much difference
the absence of the Iron Man
u
Now. Mr. Houck NAV arise and
srnte that said Humble Opinion fair
" on the bugle and mash every yes
tige of a toOt out of the same. That
is quite possible. in baseball. That's
what makes baseball a Grand Old
Game.
But the thing is this
no living human person, or dope
ster or statistiCian. can say what
form the opposing pitchers Will show
in the coming series.
And past performance (once more)
DOES NOT COUNT, except in the
line of rated ability.
wv HAT about the fielding?
w The Athletics have the sea-
sons edge and the biggest reputation.
So did the Cubs over the White Sox'
in 1905.
What about the hitting?
The Athletics have the seasons
margin. and the biggest reputation
So did the Cubs. in 1905.
And besides
The Athletics did not compile their
lofty averages, batting against Math-
CIV son, Marquard. Tesreau and Dema
rec IN A WORLDS SERIES OF
THIS YEAR.
BAKER made a couple of home runs
d in a worlds series against Mat
" and Marquard.
That was in 1911, however.
Naruuard wobbled and his collar
grew tight in a worlds series with
the Athletics,
That was in 1911.
The Athletics hit Mattv and Mar
Guard and Ames and Wiltse and
Crandall harder than the Giants hit
Coombs and Bender and Plank in
worlds series.
THAT was in 1911. And Coombs is
gone. And Tesreau and Demaree
have come.
HARD hitting-weak hitting; isn't
/ ii largely matter of strong
pi-ching or weak pitching?
Isn't it ALTOGETHER matter OF
pitching in a 7-game series that NAV
he only six games, or five games, or
four games
Al this distance, the Giant pitchers
roOk better
50 ~ r-i-S~ the Giants.