The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-02
PICKED COMMENTS
ON WORLDS SERIES
BY BEST WRITER'S

II world series were to be worked
out on a mathematical basis. allow
Ing so much for the various elements
of strength. a place would have to be
given TO the experience of the various
players as contestants in an event OF
such Importance as battle for the
big championship. Its Importance il
not great--trif1ing when compared
with the value Of pitching. batting or
fielding--but when a series Is as close
as the Giant-Athletic games promise
to be 1t might prove sufficient to
bring victory or defeat TO one OF the
teams.
McGraw, who likes to dope. out the
psychology of the game, thinks a vet
eran is just as likely to show stage
fright as the younger player who has
never before played in world series.
"A player who has q seasons work
in his system becomes thoroughly ac-
customed TO big crowds. and, though
he may feel little sense of nervonS-
ness when the crowd Is larger than
ever before, the old timer Is suscepti-
BILE to the same condition. The men,
tai attitude of the crowd has similar
effect on both It's merely ques-
tion whether the player minds crowds
and kidding affects him"
This view does not, however. make
McGraw any the less confident over
the forthcoming series. because virtu-
ally all the Giants have been through
the mill Though McGraw attaches
no great Importance to the question
OF experience, he is just as we'll
pleased that when his various players
Ia xtt-ey -
1t will not be the first time they have
appeared in public in that particular
role. Every player. whether he have
the weight and wisdom of fifteen
years in the major league on his
shoulders. feels Just little fused
when the curtain goes up on the
show Many have told at the con-
cluston of the series Of this stage
fright bugaboo and how it has made
them uncertain of their own ability
for the first few moments.
In the matter of experience the
Giants and Athletics are on the same
even footing that they are In other
respects The Giants have competed
In two series In the last two years.
while the Athletics have played in the
same number in the last three years.
The Philadelphia team that Went
against the Chicago Cubs in
1910 was virtually the same as that
which will meet the Giants this year.
In its strongest asset, the inheid. y
was at least like the present outnt.
McInnls has supplanted Harry Davis
at first base; the remainder OF the
infeld Is the same.
Mcrnnis. though he was the regular
first baseman with the Athletics in
1911, has yet to compete In a woIid
series. He was injured before the
Giants and Athletics met that year.
and Davis went back into the iirep
up. McInnis loss cost the team notn-
ing in spite of the fact that he -
one of the best first basemen in tho
major leagues. And this was no re-
Election on him--simply that Davis
played the position as well as II coui0
possibly be played. hatted well In tnS
pinches and was generally steidyinx
influence on the young ihfieic
In fact, McInnis as factor IN =
world series furnishes an odd sitna-
ton A player Of first class ability
a. batter of the 500 class and an I'm 4
portant cog in tie supe"b infeld ma
chine OF the Athletics. he was clsate q
out az taking part in the 1911 serseA
throlgh disability. and there IS =
chance ne may not play regularly In
the 1918 games. There are rumors
that Mack intends putting In Dav's
in the batting pinches because OF the
fear that McTnnis cannot deliver the
goods as a batter in the tight places.
Davis has kept in constant training
and will be ready to step In any mo-
ment he Is called upon.
Eddie" Murphy, the Athletic out
fielder is the only other regular on
that team who has not played In .
world series. AS for the G!apts. there
are only Burns, Shafer and Demaree
among the regulars Shafer last year
ran for other players on Two or three
occasions and got into the game -
short for a brief period. but he has
never really gone through a whole
series and cannot. in consequence. %
ranked with the others. This leaves
Il at an even balance. with neither
side having any advantage whatever
ON the question Of world series seasons
| ing.
Ball players being only human. n
| Is to be expected that they 81.
perienced a bit Of eif-coneciousnee1
at the outset II remains to be eeeN
whether those who have never playe4
the role before will stand up an we'll
as the veterans A season In the bin
| league is undoubtedly enough to Do1ie1
off the edges Of nervousness. hut th9
| realization that so much II expee&e4
of them "a enough to upset any yOun4e
| ster. Ouimet, the golfer, wAs nat d11e
concerted when he met vardon -
Ray In similar circumstances. only T.
little more 20. but every yonn9 NM
= not : .ouimst