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.


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 IF" or other
joker concealed somewhere about the
premises
uERE are some of the ifs"
II If Doyle gets back in the
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.
If Marquard's collar is big enough
for him.
If Shawkey comes through.
If Snodgrass uses fly-paper on his
glove.
If the weather is dark. or clear, or
rainy, or cold, or hot, or anything
else.
7 ETS see-who had the ball?
l. 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 PIT will be a matter of
pitchers, as any short series for
a big stake always has been and al
ways will be.
while it supplies the only FACTS
he in ha
has nothing whatever to do with the
series beginning October I.
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
FNT CONDITION, and PRESENT
CLASS.
from this distance. and with only
cold type to look at, the Giants
appear to be better fixed in the mat
ter of pitchers.
From which perhaps faulty angle,
and on which possibly fallaCious de-
duction, our money Gf any goes on
the Giants.
Ard no ifs" about it. just for a
change.
lust lining it up, by way of reas-
surance, we have the opposing
slabbists listed this way:
Mathewson Bender
Marquard Plank
Tesreau Houck
Demaree Shawkey
AND now an "f" that really isn't
a an "if"
If we had written "Coombs" in
place of Houck that little list would
have been preceded by a 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 a choice
for winner in the big series is to
flip up a 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
makes, in our humble opinion.
Now. Mr. Houck NAV arise and
" 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.
NJ HAT about the fielding?
w The Athletics have the sea-
sons edge and the biggest reputation.
So did the Cubs over the White Sox,
in 1906.
What about the hitting?
The Athletics have the sea SON
margin, and the biggest reputation.
So did the Cubs. in 1905.
And besides
The Athletics did not compile their
lofty averages, batting against Math-
CIV son, Marquard, Tesreau and Dema-
rec IN A WORLDS SERIES OF
THIS YEAR.
D AKER made a couple of home runs
II in a worlds series against Mat
ty and Marquard.
That was in 1911, however
Marquard wobbled and his collar
grew tight in a worlds series with
the Athletics.
That was in 1911.
The Athletics hit Matty and Mar
guard and Ames and Wiltse and
Crandall harder than the Giants hit
Coombs and Bender and Plank in a
worlds series.
That was in 1911 And Coombs is
zone And Tesreau and Demaree
ave come.
lard hitting-weak hitting; isn't
l it largely a matter of strong
pitching or weak pitching?
Isn't II ALTOGETHER a matter Of
pitching in a 7-game series that may
be only six games, or five games, or
four games?
At this distance. the Giant pitchers
lock better.
So we pick 49, Giants.