Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-30

Of the National League. They have
played great baseball and they have
scored most popular victory. George
Stallings, the manager. Is, SNOW termed
the Miracle Man" He has done
wonders. He has made a champion
ship team out of bunch of rags,
and while credit will be given here
and credit there, the man who brought
the ship home In regal style was no
one else but George T. Stallings For
old-times' sake, I am glad of Stall
lings's success, and l hope he wins
the worlds championship, which is
the one ambition of his life.
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Now that Boston has won and that
Philadelphia has won, which team
will win the big series is all the talk.
Up in Boston, if reports are true, the
Braves are not very we'll thought of
! to beat the Athletics. That view,
however, is not prevalent around
here. The men who are always look
| ing for the best in everything are
playing the Athletics. Those who
are easily swayed by sentiment are
relying on the Braves.
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The club owners will be condemning
their luck for the next few days. II
Boston hadn't played so Well, and
if New York hadn't played so poorly,
the Polo Grounds would be jammed
during the next four days. But the
race is over and the victor is known,
and the interest naturally is gone.
But still at the double-header today
there is sure to be a good crowd, and
the other games will attract fairly
well, Just to see how the Giants would
have Jared il the series had come
down to this particular series.
O. 4se
On Hank Gowdy,. catcher more
than any other man. lit is said. the
worlds series viii depend. Those
who say they know contend that If
Gowdy holds his own with the Phla-
delphia base runners the Braves
will have a royal chance to win.
But, 1t is said, Gowdy will not be
able to hold his own and those
wreckers on the Athletics will steal
so many bases that Boston will not
be in at the finish. Be that as it
may, Gowdy has proved himself a
very able catcher this year. There
has been no running wild on the
bases when he was behind the bat
He has turned back fast men time
and again and he will turn back the
speedsters on the Philadelphia crew
with the same regularity.
O.
Harry is Gowdy's first name. and ne
was born in Columbus. o.. on August
"a, $780, thus being twentN-four, years
of age. He had a tryout with the
Giants. and was traded to Boston,
where he played first base and
caught. He was rather crude in his
work, and he was sent to Buffalo
for season. He improved with the
Bisons, and was admitted to be about
the best catcher in the International
League. Stallings brought him back
to Boston, and he has made him a
most valuable man. Yet the wise
bettors say that Gowdy will not be
able To handle the Philadelphia run
ners and that this disadvantage alone
will beat the Braves.
O.
The Giants and Yankees series is
on, | see. Why, it was never off
An agreement was reached Between
the late John 7. Brush, of the Ma
tionals, and Frank Farrell, of the
| Americans, four years ago wher tho
| Giants and the Yankees played their
first series. The denial was made,
no doubt, in order to spar for time
/ until It was learned how the Giants
would make out In the National
League race. The Giants made out,
! all right, and now they will play the
| Yankees. That was the intention all
along.
While Charley Weinert defeated
Billy Maxwell, of Philadelphia, at
every angle of the game. the fight
| fans at the Broadway Sporting Club
in Brooklyn last night booed the bout
/ from end to end. 1t was no fault of
Weinert that the contest was not sat-
4 isfactory, for Charley did his best to
make it interesting. The fact is.
Maxwell was no match for Weinert
and the manager of the club was all
to blame. Maxwell is clever young
| fellow and weighs only 100 pounds.
| Weinert, who is gettinp bigger right
along, tipped the beam at It's pounds.
But the difference in weight was not
all Weinert had height and reach
and he looked like ton against a.
bushel Weinert was sore himself at
/ the fight, and he said this morning
In the Evening Star office that he
was sorry the match was ever made.
This Maxwell boy Is a fine fellow"
| Weinert said to me- HE is a per-
| feet gentleman, and he is clever, too.
He knew he wasn't big enough to
fight me, but he said it was business,
and he simply did his best to stay the
| ten rounds. He did, but I tried to
knock him out. He ran away, though,
and wouldn't let me, He has clever
left and he jabbed me several times
in the face and the blows hurt. The
fight was bad one, but it wasn't up
to me. did my best
o.
How about fighting Jim Savase?"
I asked Weinert.