Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-10-09

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But if the Bostons should happen
to win there would be great rejoic-
ing, and although I have selected the
Athletics / would be among the de-
lighted ones. Newark, If left to a
vote, would cast her lot with STALL
ings. and it is this way in many of
the cities throughout the country.
From an underdog, from nowhere,
practically, Stallings has brought
winner, and in the mad rush he has
earned friends and admirers all
along the line. He has the popular
team and he is on the popular side,
but public favorites are bowled over
as regularly as are betting favorites
at the race tracks. Talking about
betting there is very little going on
in Newark. There is plenty of money
to wager on the Athletics at to 5, |
with mighty few takers. Even to
5 doesn't attract the Boston rooters |
1t is the sympathetic crowd, not the |
betting crowd, that is with Stallings
and his team.
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The squabble between Stallings and |
Connie Mack over the use of Shibe
Park for practicing adds to the
rivalry and furnishes food for the ;
gossips. The argument is a silly |
one, and Stallings is entirely out of
order He had no business to ask
permission to use the grounds of his
rival club and Mack didn't turn him
down, as the first stories of the |
trouble had it. Mack told Stallings
his men had arranged to practice in
the afternoon and he could not well
change his plans. He offered to give
Stallings the freedom of the ball park
In the morning, and that was courtesy
enough Mack's action was not un-
sportsmanlike. If anything, Stall
ings has been the offender. Stallings
S already getting a big favor Nrom
the American League py being al
Owed to play his home games at
Fenway Park, home of the Americans.
He should not allow his success to
'un away with him, or else he will
spill the beans. Stallings's threat
,ver the phone to punch Macks nose
Iounds bad, and Mack has not re-
olied to it.
The Giants beat the Yankees in the
1rst game Of the New York city So
les, but it took Matty and required
EN- innings to do it. Besides, fortune
vas more or less on the Giants side,
and more bonehead plays were in
than you would witness in
4 game on the lots. Merkle wasn't
n any of them, but some of his
and some of the Yankees
became full-fiedged ''Barrys" at times.
rhe Yanks really ought to have won
In an ordinary nine-inning game. but
they lacked sane judgment and took
wild chances, This, in some quar-
ters, might have been mistaken for
aggressive baseball, but 1t was down.
right rotten baseball. But the
Giants won to victory after an
exciting squabble, and it looks as if
the series Is going to be real inter-
esting.
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AS the teams gamboled on the dia-
nond of the Polo Grounds yesterday
the Yankees looked to be the stronger
- +ta truo uVl,oro mo q win, ond epaad
In their work and there was youth
to back them up. They should have
won, but in their anxiety they threw
away their chances, They hit Matty
hard, but their mistakes offset their
stickwork. The "Old Master seems
to be tottering. Even his judgment
is not acute any more. At one stage
of the game yesterday he should have
walked Ed Sweeney. He didn't and
Sweeney poked out what ought to
have been q triple, sending the tieing
run in ahead of him. AS things
turned out, Boone, who followed
Sweeney, made a short single, but 1t
was the play, nevertheless, to pass
up the hard-hitting Sweeney. Ed,
by the way, after making his long
drive, pulled bone by hesitating at |
second, and then being thrown out at
third. If he had come right along |
to third he would have been safe, and |
he would have scored the winning run |
on Boone's clout past second base. |
1t must come to wireless signals IL |
slow thinking players are to remain
in the game.
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The Yankees, from all appearances,
ought to win the series, even with
the first game lost to them. They
hit Matty, the Giants best, hard, and
they should beat big Six" the next
time. Heating pitched pretty good
game, but he was hit hard In spots.
The Giants got all the runs they
were entitled to. The Yanks threw
at least two tallies away. The series
is not likely to be as large as ex-
pected. The fans are sore on the
Giants for losing the pennant, and In
yesterdays crowd of 1910 Yankee
rooters prevailed. The Giants parti-
sans may warm up later on, espe-
cially IL their teams looks like a win
ner, but just at present cold feet are
very much in evidence wherever Ma
tional Leaguers hang out. The paid
attendance for the first game was
s5,SS1.50, of which the National Com
mission will receive s5ss.15. the play
ers s3,176.01, and the clubs s2,11IS4.
This is not so bad when 1t is re-
called that the two Philadelphia
clubs played a post-season series and
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