Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06

teams and know a good one from bad
as well as the next fellow. And the
Braves are n good team, as good as they
come. And the Athletics are going to
ind 1t out. I'm sure mighty happy to
be with them
Leslie Mann: AN the National League
teams have been beaten by the Braves.
| and the Athletics will be unless they re
whole lot better than they were when
| they played the Giants last year. Talking
before series doesn't do much good,
but when everybody on team thinks
| the team Is going to win. II comes mighty
| near settling the matter
Ted Gather: "a hope | get'a chance i'm
the series. for 1 think the Braves are
| going to win II, and | sure want TO plav
iir the games as we'll as be on the team
Moybe I'm not glad that I was shifted
from the Cardinals to Boston. I'll try
my best to show It, too II I get the
chance"
If any one thinks that George stallings
Is not confident of beating the Athletics.
let him read what the Braves manager
has to say on the subject:
I'VE have been through series Just
as hard MS the one coming, all things
considered. All season long the air has
been ringing with talk OF crucial series
Everybody has been waiting for us to
crack. We weathered all of the hard
series and we have not cracked so that
any one can notice II.
while 1t may appear foolish on the
face of It, it's an absolute fact that
the series against New York. back in
August, was a harder test OF my ball
club than the coming Philadelphia games
will be.
The team had been fighting for more
than a month and was more or less
played out then.
"Only couple of the players had ever
been in games where pennant hung In
the balance and where slip might mean
great financial loss.
"A lot of young, practically inexperi
enced, ball players were fighting a cham
pion team. Enormous crowds were out
hostile crowds The Giant veterans. see
ing their glory slipping away. worked
every trick of their long experience to
shake up the Braves.
The fight and the crowds and the
competition merely acted as n spur 1t
That series, when we fought ourselves to
within three and n half games of the
leaders, after gaining nine games on
them in n month"; was really the making
OF the Boston champions.
at showed them that they could beat
any. team in the league. 1t made them
confident They were game, every one
of them but that cleanup made them
gamer
1--WE are better fortified with hitters
than any team that ever faced the Ath- |
letics in the big series. We have right |
handed batters for the left-handed pitch |
ers and offside sluggers for the right
handlers.
Connolly is the hardest hitter on the
team against n right-hander, but Gather
hits the southpaws Just as hard. The
Pme is true of Mann and Moran.
Most of the Athletics slugsers are
hitters and our southpaws
are going to give them lots OF bother.
I'VE may lose. though I don't think
We will. But II we do It will not be until
the Athletics have been given the tough
est fight they have ever been up against"
It is generally believed that Rudolph
and Bender will be the opposing pitchers
In the first game of the worlds series
There is no Eainsaying the fact that
unless Connie Mack has entirely changed
his views regarding his pitching staff.
he will use Bender first. This he will do
because he things Bender can win more
easily than any of the other members
of the hurting corps, and, as every one
Is aware. the moral advantage of win
ming the first game is great Then, too.
the Chief will be ready to come back
in Boston. This is the way
stallings dopes out the situation and he
intends to use Rudolph against the Chief
.ain. While in New York he was talk
ng along this very line and remarked.
n discussing Rudolph:
Nobody in the country has a better
,hance OF winning a tight and important
game Mathewson himself has nothing
IN Dick when 1t comes to cunning. He
,an do just about whatever he pleases
With a baseball. He can knock your
eye out with a curve he can knock your
we out with fast ball and the same
With slow one.
And never believe for a second that
Rudolph will get ratified. He's the kind
Ill ,~I@ AaFf hIr,lF fr1yfn ]
bout betting his end OF the worlds
eries on his ability TO fan Home Run
3aker Dick is as game a pebble and
,ool as ice water. Just keep your eye {
n him in this series"