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

By O. B. Keller.
THE most artistic and popular
plan of committing yourself on
the Worlds Series is to frog up
a 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 '1f''f or other
Joker concealed somewhere about the
premises
HERE are some of the ifs"
II II 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.
If Matty is as good as he was
If Plank gets enough rest.
II Marquard's collar is big enough
for him. e
If Shawkey comes through
If Snodgrass uses fiy-paper on his
glove
II the weather lS udIhs VI tltdI. VI
rainy, or cold, or hot, or anything
else.
I ET'S see-who had the ball?
IL 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 1T will be a matter Of
pitchers. as any short series for
a 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 7.
Point No 3-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 a mat
ter of PRESENT ABILITY. PRES
ENT CONDITION, and PRESENT
CLASS.
IRON this distance. and with only
- cold. type to look at. the Giants
anpfea 1 to he bettSr fT@A EHS pat
From which pethaPx sHrtN angle,
and on which possAb& tfafia sfeus de-
duction. eur money or any goes on
the Giants.
And no ifs" about IT, just for a
ehange.
I ST lining It up. by way of reas-
=. surance. we have the opposing
slahbists listed this way:
Nathewson Bender
Narquard d. e.. Plank
Tesreau :. Houck
Demaree sha"key
AND now an "ff" that really isn't
"a 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 choice
for winner in the big series is to
nip up quarter If you haven't one,
and can't borrow It. use something
else"
THAT'S just how much difference
the absence of the Iron Man
mikes, in our humble opinion.
Now Mr. Houck NAV arise and
smite that said Humble Opinion fair
" on the bugle and mash every YES
tige Of 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 saw 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.
fNYT lat 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.
. The Athletics have the sea sons
margin. and the biggest reputation.
So did the Cubs, in 1906.
And besides
lofty avera ges, batting against Math-
VI
rec IL a WORLDS SERIES OF
THIS YEAR.
n AKFR made a couple of home runs
D in a worlds series against Mat
~ and Marquard.
That was in 1911, however.
Narouard wobbled and his collar
GREW tight in a worlds series with
the Athletics
That was in 1911.
The Athletics hit Matty and Mar
ov7rd and Ames and Wiltse and
crardau harder than the Giants hit
combs ana Bender and Plank in
worlds series.
that was in 1911. And Coombs is
gone. And Tesreau and Demaree
have come
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