Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-03
OLD AND NEW MEN
IN WORLDS SERIES
Connie Mack Has the Veteran
Players; Youngsters to Battle
For the Boston Braves
By .Assoeidted Press

New York. Oct 3.-When the Phila-
delphia Athletics and the Boston
Braves go into action in the twenty
third series for the worlds champion
ship baseball honors the diamond
campaign will be fought out by teams
which represent the old and new in
the national sport. Although the aver
age age of the leading players of the
two combinations is not widely sepa-
rated the Athletics machine is so IA
NOUS and it's success so striking that
it appears old by comparison with the
squad that George Stallings whipped
in shape in midsummer and thus won
n pennant for Boston. Taking twenty
odd players of the two teams as
basis it will be found that the aver
age age of the Athletics is twenty-six
and oneahalf years and the Braves
twenty-four and three-fourth years.
While less than two years in aver
age age separates the teams the eX
tremes are more marked in the Ath-
leticS than the Braves. Plank, Bender,
Coombs, Oldring, Lapp and Thomas.
All are past thirty, but the majority
of those who will figure in the daily
lineup are several years under this
age. The three youngest players in
the squad are the pitchers, Bush,
Pennock and Wyckoff.
Americans Have Advantage
The American League representa-
tives have the advantage in years Of
baseball experience for the F@hiladel-
phia club players average fully a year
more in time spent upon the profess
sional thsn the Boston players The
Braves average is approximately five
years with Johnny Evers heading the
list with twelve years of play. The
point Of PROFESSIONAL service Plank
leads the Athletics with thirteen years
OF baseball play and experience at his
back. Bender is but one year behind
and several others just fall short Of
double figures in their diamond career.
AS a result the Athletics average is six
years notwithstanding the fact that a
number of comparative youngsters are
marshaled under the Philadelphia
flag.
The team which will act as the
standard bearers of the National
League is an interesting combination
of the youth and the age of the dia-
mond. In some cases extremes have
been blended by Manager Stallings in
artful manner to make of the Braves
winning team. This fact is illus
trated in two notable cases. Principal
figures in the scheme of attack and
defense which enabled the Braves to
win to the front of the stirring race
in the National League
Veteran of Many Games
Johnny Evers, veteran Of nearly
1000 games a figure prominent in
the recent history of the sport, has
worked in effective collaboration about
second base with Rabbit" Maran-
vile, barely more than a boy, playing
his second season with a major league
club. The same combination of old
and young is found in the records of
the men OF the outfield, and of the
pitching staff. These figures show the
oldest member of the team to be Otto
Hess, with 33 years behind him. Al
most u boy, Paul Strand at 19 years
is the baby Of the team.
The statistics OF the players who
sre likely TO participate in the worlds s
series of 1914 are as follows:
Philadelphia Athletics