The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-08
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.MACKMEN TO WIN
New York Sport Writer Says
Braves Haven't q Chance.
All Ball Players Are Children
BostOnians Especially.
(Bv ]. w. McConaughy.)

New York, Oct. Sat the risk OF
summary expulsion from the baseball
writer's associat ton. the writer OF these
polished lines hereby goes on record in
the following fateful words:
The Athletics will win the worlds
series.
You are not required to take our
word for it. Nor are you required to
wager recklessly on the strength of the
foregoing-far from 1t.
There are plenty of reasons for be-
lieving that the Athletics will prevail.
The figures" show a certain marked
superiority and "figures'' are the most
entertaining baseball fiction we have.
Ty Cobb has remarked that 1t is a
lucky thing for the Braves that they
clinched the pennant last Thursday as
they will have had whole week OF
comparative rest in which to prepare
for the big battle. There is some
ground for disagreeing with Mr. C0bD
in this matter. as we have been forced
to do from time to time since he be-
erature.
These young men on the Boston team
will have time to rest-which very few
of them need-and they will also have
time to think, which is about the worst
thing they could do. In those last days
at the Polo grounds they probably stud
led the spot OIL the horizon where the
ball was last seen when Matty gave
Frank Baker that low fast one inside.
They have also had some time to devote
to the batting weaknesses" OF the Attn
letics and learn how few and far be-
tween these are. If they had been
hustled from the National league race
right into battle with the Athletics with
only days rest between they might
have had some complaints from the
pitchers, but they would have still had
the momentum Of their great rush.
Plaverz like Children
Even veteran ball players are pretty
much like children and young ball play
ers are children. The Braves are q
team Of youngsters. 1t Is a well known
fact on which large gobs Of humorous
weekly matter is based. that in q fam
lily Of eight a child will do its stunts
with great success and abandon. But
II you leave the child alone with an I'M
friendly stranger of forbidding mien.
the result will be an appalling bust.
This is likely to happen in the case
Of the Braves. 1t has been all in the
family all GUNNER and a pretty bum
family it has been, take 1t by and large.
For several years the Giants have been
the only ball club in the league and
they were never in that time a truly
great club. This year the dear old
Giant team has been just a plain
squash. 81 -s ssi.st4 ~ -rt.sl--.l
The result is that the Braves have
no idea what a real baseball team looks
which to do lot of uncomfortable
guessing. This is likely to induce a
frame Of mind that will lead to disas-
trous results when big Chief Bender
slouches out to the mound and begins
to smile at them in his fatherly way.
The Athletics will in the meantime
have had a long rest and their days of
gloomy thoughts over q worlds series
are long since past. They will get the
full physical and mental benefit. They
have wrecked the Cubs and butchered
the Giants in the past and after Matty
and Minor Brown, there Is nothing but
Rudolph and James to give them pan
iclky feelings in advance.