Evening journal., 1913-10-10

les.
You can take yeur Anseps and
your Burketts-you, Dalrymples and
your Keelers ~ your Delehantys,
Lajoies and Wagners--your Cobbs
and your JacksonE- take them and
compile their batting flesh into one
massive lump, and then know al the
finish that the game has never pro-
duced such a world series. snowy
batting pair as Mack's amazing WELD
ers OF tho glazed and tempered ash.
The Proof.
This may stand as broad asser-
tion hut unto those who rise to say
that we are wrong. we hereby five
broadside Of succulent statistics to
show exactly where We stand. We
are not dealing with opinions here.
but with cold. olamniy and pallid
proof, arrayed from cluster of facts.
Frank Baker is now in his third
worlds series. He has faced the best
pitching Cubs and Giants have had
10 offer pennant- winning pitching
considered above par. And in these
three years. out Of 30 trips TO the
plate. he has torn Off g5 base hits for
an average Of exactly .fs4.
In the same period. Collins has
been at tho bat fifty -four times. where
he has delivered twenty-five hits for
the average Of .40S. Just lot this sink
in for a mement 8s you ponder on
the why's and .wherefcres,
TO BE Stopped Yesi
They had torn things apart IN 1910
and 1911. Nov" came the whisper.
they arc due to be stopped at last.
for McGrsw has the greatest pitching
staff in the game What ball club
can show three better than Mathew
son. Marquard and Tesreau on a
years work. But with all they've
had, well-supported, how abruptly in
this series have Baker and Collins
heen hauled up? Exactly as follows:
Baker for the three games is batting
5S9 and Collins 5S3 In 25 trips to
the plate they have harvested a flock
of IA hits for a combined average Of
$50. They Lave scored seven runs
and driven over seven more-more
than half as many runs as the en-
/ tire Giant lipe-up has been able 10
I gather in ali three games Outside
OF this they have been stopped, check
cd. curbed and dispersed. Also
choked and throttled. To say Moth
NIX W HdAtIh diln rnDNuNNs
The Difference.
Mathewson alone stopped them be.
cause with all his physical stuff, ht
also carried o brain. Marquard fell
and Tesreau was slaughtered not be
cause either was shy on stuff, but be-
cause they were not able TO outguesf
the Mackmen as Mathewson did.
Here VIC have clean-eyed. free
swinging club that can murder; eithei
speed or curves IL It once gets SCI
With toehold. .Tesreau never look
bed TO have greater speed, his cnrvn'
4 cracked sharply and, he failed TO Is
sue a pass. But. he was pitching tt
free-swinging club. set for the wal
lop. and where Mathewson. with his
lnborn summing. crossed the iine-Ul
With unmatched genius. Ozark Ief
pitched by. the program till his hid'
came off
ANY time a free-sviuging. slug
zng club is out-guessed it looks az
helpless as a corpulent turtle rolled
upon It's quycring back, But woe
unto that pitcher whatever he car
riss. who guesses in the expected
groove For his hide shall come of
in large CORY strips and his ear,
shall throb with the resonant crasl
OF ash meeting leather as base hits
explode and fragments strew thc
heid Such q club, out-suessed 1.
thrown of its balance much wors,
than a club choppins at the bal
would he. .-.
There is no time 10 recover pois,
II the bali shnats out an unexpecte,
trail But " n travels over the look
ed for by way. the faster II comes nm
1.-The faster it will Whirl around an,
strayeI in another direction. some
thine built entirely Of wood vii
meet II squsrely over the left es
and a white. streak to some tar, un
guarded spot will be the onl
nswer.
..dss Ford as Prophet.
Sunday morning in the Penusyl
yania station, we bumped .ii. Rus
Ford as the Yank slabman was wait
Ing to board an outbound vestibnl
for his Minnesota home.
Which youpgster will Mack use.
we queried. Bush, Brown. or Shaw
key2"
"Bush, almost to. certainty sal
Ford. He is one of the great youn
pitchers of baseball He has m
stuff-tho speed. control. ETC.. br
above all that he is cool kid,
game one and the sort that will wor
easily and as we'll in big series a
in an exhibition game. And whe
he works the Giants will have a
they can carry"
We caught a bigger carful thel
than we knew about at the time. Fol
had called the turn to a final whispe
b Bush. like Ford halls from Minneso
/, although. he was brought on fro
AIissoula, Mont. in the Union Leagu
= Missoula is the center Of one Of Il
finest applc-gfowing counties In Il
) world Now,it can also lay clai
to- the most luscious peach in q
market
Bush and Plank.
The day before We saw Plank.
p wears old shut cut the Giants for Mi
rounds before he broke Yesterdl
r We looked upon one twenty yes
fyoiinzer than the great; southpaw I
Bush hssnt yet slipped by the min
teen mark He vlllsbe twenty in \
yembsrs but he looked YESTERDAY
II he might have started pitcht
! l~crld series balrtTc month"; after
suas born. He NsS almost a &C