The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-03
GIANTS FAVORED
BY Many WRITERS
In Home Cities Only Are
Odds Being Given Play
ers Worked Yesterday.

New York, Oct. 3.-Opinion regard
ing the outcome Of the worlds series
appears to be unusually divided this
year.. Prominent baseball players and
writer's are predicting a very close Sc
ries with low scores predominating.
All speak of the luck or break of the
game being an important factor in
ship.
The same situation has developed in
the betting. Outside. of the home
cities of the two competing clubs the
wagering is at v money. In Phil
adelphia the Athletics are slight ia
vorttes over the New York team and
here local supporters r quoting odds
Of ten to nine on the Giants to defeat
the American league representatives.
Managers Make Predictions.
Expression of opinion on the part
of the managers nj players of other
clubs are beginning to be heard with
the gathering Of the advance guard
for the opening game next Tuesday.
Among those who r. ~favoring the
Athletics are Frank Chance, Napoleon
Lajoie. Clark Griffith and Umpire
Billy Evans. Some of those who are
naming the Giants as probable win
ners are George Stallings, Johnny
Evers, Fred Clarke and Ty Cobb.
Hughey Jennings and Bill Dahlen
have stated that the teams are SO
evenly matched that the outcome of
the series is q toss-up, with luck play
ing a leading part.
Eighteen Favor Giants.
A %oncensu among thirty leading
baseball writer's of the big league cir
cults show that Is favor the Giants to
vryfn n nnSsnrk ,nf~n h.
three frankly undecided. Almost
qualify their predictions by stating
that the series Of 1913 will b. very
evenly contested and that the slight
est break in the luck of the game will
swing the championship one way or
the other. The chief advantage ac-
corded the Giants is their strength in
the pitching department. The Ath-
letics' adherents conceie this point,
but contend that the superior batting
ability of the Philadelphia club will
more than Offset the slight difference
In the twirling form of the two STATS.
Giants Worked Yesterday.
Manager McGraw had his regulars
aside from Fred 'Snoigrass,: the
"charley-horsed" centerf1elder in ac-
ton yesterday n in addition put
new n OF the first
line defense in the box. through. their
PAGES. Larry Doyle, team captain and
second sacker whose shoulder has
been lame, since he hurt 1t in an au-
tomobile accident last week, got into
the harness in the second game of
the ioubleheader With Philadelphia.
1t is expected that he will have time
to rest up to play his usual dashing
game. 1t is counted significant, by
some. however. that McGraw did not
put Larry Doyle with the rest OF the
regulars. during the first when Shafer
played second and Herzog third. The
combination worked we'll, both at bat
and in the field. But shafer was
back al third at the start of the lat
ter encounter and worked a while In
that position with Fletcher. Doyle and
Merkle-the infleld that all along has
been expected to man the inner de-
lenses for the Giants In the battle
with the Athletics and their notable
infieli combination.
,"Siatty'' Works Wcll."
It was in the first encounter that
Mathewson and Marquard, one or the
other Of whom ID likely to twirl the
opening worlds series game were
tried out. 'Matty" possibly is in bet
ter form this year, but in the four in
nings he worked, the heavy hitting
Phillies were able to score but once
and would not have counted then had
not Shafer made " bad throw to first