Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-05

'''"t 'NdIlHES VIII snow them.
Commenting on the hopes of fandom r
the coming worlds series. the New York
Herald says:
Instead OF the Sew Philadelphia
dish. this years food for the million or
more fans will be between Connie Macks
Athletics, representing the American
League, and the Boston Braves, the new
champions Of the National League And
without cNasEcrHtOn in the least il can
De said that nearly every fan who 10
sides outside OF Pmladelphia will be pull
lnE Tor the success OF the Braves in the
Dig series.
The majority Of tho baseball fans in
TINS country want io see the Braves win
the world mpionships, just as they
wanted To see Stalltugs' aggregation tri-
umph owe" the Oran,s i'm the fight tor
the National League pennant.
This assumption ON the part Of New
York regarding the attitude of the fans
I'M loughuut the country is based of
course, on tn wishes Of New Workers
only This induetiye conclusion reminds
of the story tod OF the old Quaker lady
OF our own city who said to her husband:
Dear every one in the world is pc
euIiar except thou ana me and at times
even thou art little queer" The aver
age New Yorker like this old lady. is
Hei-supreme in the thought that he alone
can judEe
A prominent citizen and baseball fan
If Boston recently expressed himself this
way when asked what he thought Of the
Graves chances against the Athletics:
Just pin 1t down that the Braves will
give the Athletics Il sound trimming in
the worlds series
1T ts against the law of averages for
any team to win all the time as ap-
pears the case with the Athletics You
can call it luck, fate or anything YOU
want but no champion can go, on for
ever in any branch Of sport The Braves
VIII win simply because everything will
he with them They are due. according
tu all percentage. Connie Mack has a
better team, but Just now the Braves
are playing beyond themselves and. be-
lnS a>Noung team, will not wake up until
the series is over and won"
In the following Haywood Broun. Of
the New York Tribune points out the
superiority Of the Athletics over the
Braves on the bases:
Boston has not Il single player who
has stol on more than 80 bases. while
Eddie Collins, of the Athletics. alone
ma l,1;,,,o un2oed has piled up record of 81
tudie Murphy has 30 to his credit. At
THIS point Hrrhie Moran with 2S. and
Maranville with 25, step in to spoil the
continuity Of the Mackmen
After that the superiority of the Ath-
!etics Is over whelming, Strunk having
stolen y Mclnnes, 2l: Barry, Is: Oldring,
H. and Baker. l6 All these crowd in
ahead of the third man on the Boston
llst, Who. surprisingly enough, is Hank |
Gowdy, the catcher. His record is Just
lS The team total of the Athletics is .
2lS. That Of the Braves is 156.
'PaTalONigally enough hat /
tic Is often won or lost by the catcher |
y passed ball, wide throw OF a missed |
foul time and again proves the turning |
point in such game. Schang will catch |
catch for the Braves.
"GcorE" &tallines, in discussing his
team the other day, said: 'SchanE was
once with me in the International League,
and 90 ! have had a chance to compare
him TO Gowdy Schang IS a fine catcher
but | honestly believe that he is not the
equal Of Gowdy.
"Stallings may have reason for his
choice, hut certainly few critics Of base
ball will side with him Gowdy is a
catcher of great promise, but Schang is
a finished artist.
"Gowdy is a tremendously free hitter
although he does not boast great aver
age, and is likely al any time to turn
the tide in n game with a long smash,
but exactly the same thing may be said
of Schang,
Given Gowdy on a bad day, there is
no worse catcher in either league. In
one game against the Giants he muffed
two 'Huls, was charged with two passed
balls made three Wild throws to
head off haSe-runners.
Friends of the long. lank catcher say
that his bad days come only when they
don't count and that the tighter the
game the better he catches. Gowdy may
prove the same sort of surprise that Ira
To-, al a
but on the basis of form Schang is the
better man.
1T is said that base running has never
played a large part in a worlds series,
but this year, which is likely to see bet
ter pitching than ever before, there is
may bring the decisive runs Gowdy is
one of the reasons why the backers of
the Athletics give odds on the result of
the series
Here is what four Of the Braves de-
pendahlps think of their chances with
the MackmeR in the series:
Shortstop Maranville:
Wen so after the Athletics Just like
we did everybody else. We've managed
to beat out the National League and
when VIZ play the other champions we
Will follow the same old policy Of fght-
ing all the way and never stopping We
have hittcrF and everything else that
makes ball team, 50 we're not worry
ing a bit"
Pitcher Rudolph;
The Braves look good 10 ne as the
next champions. Pitching for them I've
learned 10 know just how great a team
they are The, sur" certainly can come
through, no matter how far they are be-
hind Ana in all their big series they
have been better than ever. Unless I'm
away Off they'll show more against
the Athletics than the Giants ever did"
Pitcher James
IF working our heads off Is going to
win were bound to he the next cham
pions. Every man on the team expects
10 win. and you can't beat that kind Of
spirit When I've pitched for the Braves
they've always been there with the bat
and In the field and III be very much
IF they do not even do more
when the hardest test they have TO face
comes along
Pitcher Tyler:
For my part Of IT, feel sure the
Athletics arc due 10 get a beating. 1
have had a chance to know just how good
the Braves are No pitcher could help
throwing his arm away to win for them.
they work SO hard to help him along.
Wen be up against a tough team but
we've been up against just that all along
and We re still alive and kicking