El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-30
Demoree And Shawkey Are
Being Counted On By Fans
Pitcher Mathewson Still Holds the Record For Three
Straight Triumphs Over the Athletics Bender
May Repeat His Wonderful Performance of
1911 Series Against the Giants.
By w. J. MacBeth.1

EW YORK, Sept. 30.-With the
~ waning of the regular baseball
L Season, a Egreat majority of the
fans are busily delving into dope on
the coming worlds series, which Will
be played by the New York National
league team and the Philadelphia
American league team, early next
month
Pitching Strength of Teams.
Naturally one of the most important
factors in the calculations Of the dope
sters is the respective pitching strength
OF the two teams. In considering this
angle Of the coming struggle, there are
many who assert that this viii be the
year in which the great veteran Twill
ers Of the rival teams VIII be FORCED TO
make way in the limelight for two
youngsters. To be more exact, there
are those VINO think that the youngest
tWirlers on the respective teams viii
be the heroes Of the series.
Al Demaree, serving his first year as
a regular on the Giants pitching corps,
bids fair TO lead the National league
hurlers in the winning percentages
and it is the fond hope Of steadfast
New York enthusiasts that Steamer
Az viii pitch wide circles around
Chief Bender, Eddie Plank and a few
of Mack's sensational young box per-
formers.
Fans Favor shawkey.
Button hole any Philadelphia fan.
and he viii bet money, marbles or chalk
that Bob Shawkey, the juvenile OF the
Mackian staff, will outpitch such es-
tabhshed stars as MatheWson, Mar
guard and Tesreau in the big series
Christy MatheWson, Bill Dineens I'd
Walsh. Mordecai Brown, Babe" Ad-
ans Jack COommbs and Joe Wood are
generally considered the greatest
worlds championship pitchers of mod
ern baseball history. Bill Dinesn was
the first to gain fame as pitching
hero in the inaugural worlds series
between American and National league
teams in 1903, when the Boston Ameri-
cans nOsed out the Pirates in their
memorable encounter Of eight games.
Dineen, now an American league UNI
pire. was the greatest right handler of
his time.
Pittsburg had won three Of the first
four games, Dineen grabbing off a
victory for the retreating Bostons in
the second tilt Dineen succumbed to
Philippe in the fourth clash. Old Cy
Young saved the Americans by beating
Kennedy in the fifth game.
Dineen thrashed Lever in the sixth,
and Young performed the same opera
ton on Philippe in the seventh In
the eighth and deciding game, Dineen
routed Philippe and the Pirates and
secured for Boston the worlds cham
piOnship. The score was 3 to 0. In
this critical clash, Dineen struck out
the great Wagner, with the bases con-
MatheETsOn Holds Record.
Mathewson still holds the record of
three straight shutout triumphs over
the Athletics in 1905. He beat Eddie
Plank to 0 in the first game, and
BANKED Andy Coakley, g to 0, in the
third game Of the series; and shut out
Redskin Bender. 2 to 0. in the fifth
and deciding game.
Ed Walsh pitched fielder Jones's Chi
cago White Sox to victory over the Cubs
in 1906. Walsh won two games. in
Guiding a 2 to shutOut that took all
the vim out Of Chancemen and made
them easy picking in the final game.
Babe" Adams, the practically IN
known, tWirled three straight victories
for Pittsburg over Detroit in 1903, win
ming the worlds series for the Pirates.
The youngsters performance was SEN
sational in the extreme He yielded
only Is hits in the three conflicts,
struck out II smuggling Tigers and
walked only six batsmen.
COOmbs Is Lucky.
Jack Coombs, Of the Athletics.
equaued Adams records Of winning
three straight in the 1910 series. but he
was lucky. Although ne beat the Cubs
every time he tOiled against them,