Evening journal., 1913-10-10

/ club that ever waded into a short ser
les"
You can take your Ansons and
your Burketts-you Dalrymples and
your Keelers ~ your pelehantys,
! ajoies and Waeners-your Cobbs
and your Jacksons-take them and
compile their batting flesh into one
massive lump, and then know az the
finish that the game has never pro-
duced such a world series. snowy
| batting pair as Mack's amazing WELD
ers Of the. glazed and tempered ash.
The Proof.
This may stand as a broad asser-
ton hut unto those who rise to say
that we are wrong, We hereby fire
a broadside Of succulent statistics TO
show exactly where we stand. We
are not dealing with opinions here,
but with cold. clammy and pallid
proof. arrayed from a cluster OF facts.
Frank Baker is now in his third
worlds series. He has faced the best
pitching Cubs and Giants have had
TO offer, pennant-winning pitching
considered above par. And In these
three years. out Of 50 trips 10 the
plate he has torn off % base hits for
an average Of exactly .424
In the same period. Collins has
been az the bat fifty-four times, where
he has delivered twenty-five hits for
the average of .4Os. Just let this sink
in for a moment as you ponder on
the why's and wherefores.
To BE Stoppedl Yesl
They had torn things apart IN 1910
and 1911. Now" came the whisper,
they are due to be stopped az last.
for McGraw has the greatest pitching
stan in the game" What ball club
can show three better than Mathew
son. Marquard and Tesreau on
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:
Raker for the three games is batting
.539 and Collins $50. In 25 trips 10
the plate they have harvested a hock
OF IA hits for a combined average OF
$50. They Lave scored seven runs
and driven over seven more-mor,
than half as many runs as the en-
tire Giant lineup has been able e
gather in all three games Outside
of this they have been stopped check
cd. curbed and dispersed. Also
choked and throttled. To say moth
ing Of halted and subdued.
Z he Difference.
Mathewson alone stopped them be-
cause with all his physical stuff, he
also carried a brain. Marquard fell
and Tesreau was slaughtered not be-
cause either was shy on stuff but be-
cause they we're not able 10 outguess
the Mackmen as Mathewson did.
Here we have a clean-eyed, free
swinging club that can murder either
speed or curves II II once gets set
with a toehold. Tesreau never look
ed TO have greater speed. his curves
cracked sharply and he failed to is
sue a pass. But he was pitching to
a free-swinging club, set for the wal
lop, and where Mathewson, with his
inborn summing, crossed the lineup
with unmatched genius. Ozark JEFF
pitched by the program till his hide
came of.
ANY time a free-swinging, slug
ging club is out-guessed It looks as
helpless as a corpulent turtle rolled
upon it's quivering back. But woe
unto that pitcher, whatever he car
ries, who guesses in the expected
groove. For his hide shall come off
in large CORY strips and his ears
shall throb with the resonant crash
OF ash meeting leather as base hits
explode and fragments strew the
field Such a club. out-guessed is
thrown of its balance much worse
than a club chopping at the ball
would be.
There is no time to recover poisS
II the ball shoats out an unexpected
trail But II IL travels over the look
ed for by-way, the faster Il comes up
~ a
travel in another direction. Some
thing built entirely OF wood vii
meet II squarely over the left eal
and a white streak TO some far, un
guarded spot viii be the onl.
nswer.
-.dss Ford as g Prophet.
Sunday morning in the Pennsyl
vania station, We bumped il Rus
Ford as the Yank slabman was wait
ing 10 board an outbound vestibnl
for his Minnesota home
Which youngster will Mack use,
we queried. Bush. Brown or Shaw
key?"
Bush, almost 70 a certainty" sal
Ford. He is one Of the great youn
pitchers OF baseball. He has I'll
stuh-ths speed. control. etc. bu
above all that he is a cool kid,
game one and the sort that will wor
easily and as well in a big series a
in an exhibition game And whe
he works the Giants will have al
they can carry"
We caught a bigger earful ther
than we knew about AZ the time. For
had called the turn to a final whisper
Bush. like Ford. halls from Minnesot
although he was brought on iron
lMissoula, Mont. in the Union League
lMissoula Is the center Of one OF IN
finest applo-growing countries in I'll
} world Now it can also lay CLAIM
p 10 the most luscious peach in tn
market
Bush and Plank.
The day before we saw Plank, 8
2 years old. shut out the Giants for min
? rounds before he broke. Yesterda
we looked upon one twenty year
5 younger than the great southpaw. 70
Bush hasn't yet slipped by the nine
teen mark. He will be twenty In Nc
: vember. but he looked yesterday a
? liz he might have started pitchin
: world series ball two months after h
svas born. He was almost as COZ