Evening journal., 1914-07-17
He PICKS CHICAGO
FOR World Series
Callahan Says SOx and Cubs
Will Be the BattlerS
Next Fall
EXPECT MUCH OF
CREE, NEWCOMER

Jimmy Callahan, manager of the !
Chicago White Sox, says the next
worlds series will be played in the
Windy City He picks the Cubs to
win the pennant in the National
league and declares his own aggre-
cation cannot be stopped and will
capture the rag in the American. Cal
lahan pins much of his hope on big
Ed" Walsh, who has regained his
wonderful stride, and is going better
than ever.
eve will play the worlds series in
Chicago next fall" said Manager Cal
lahan. Nobody can stop us now that
Walsh is right Believe me, Ed is as
good today as he ever was in his
life. And l am not going to work
him to death, l do not have to. /
have wonderful pitching STAFF with
cut him. With him l have the
greatest pitchers that ever worked
for one manager.
Il think by giving him plenty Of
time between games that Walsh will
win pretty nearly every start from
now until the end of the season. My
club has been called a weak hitting
aggregation. In part this allegation
is true. But go look up the dope and
see where we stand with the rest Of
the field.
Never before in history has there
| been such wonderful pitching as seen
in the American league this season.
II practically every other rival hadn't
almost as good a staff as myself, my
team would now be winging away out
IN front. / have a team of average
hitting power and one possessed of
| plenty of speed. It is true that the
majority of the players lack season
ing. But the fact that they have kept
so very close to the leaders speaks
well for them, | think Take il from
me, the White Sox will improve
where Philadelphia and Washington
cannot hope to do so.
81 do not mean by this that we
viii increase our squirt. We have
won 16 out of the last 90 games. Any
team that does that has to be lucky
But this sensational sprint put us
among the leaders and we do not in
tend to toss off the chance that has
| been opened to us.
81 do not think my friend, John
| McGraw is going to overcome prece-
dent for a fourth consecutive pen
nant. He hasn't the team he had a
| year ago. Shafer and Herzog could
not be replaced. Mac has but one
! reliable pitcher, the wonderful Mat
! hewson, and he cannot win a pen
nant single handed. To my mind
O'Day has the best balanced team in
the National league. He has the best
catchers surely, and his pitching can
not be beaten. That is why I think
the worlds series will be played in
Chicago, I'm not worrying about my
| end of it,"
When Callahan was last in Gotham
he had a face as long as a yardstick.
| Then his team was on the skids and
tobogganning at record speed. He
IS naturally an optimist and under
| present conditions quite companion
able
Chance has no license to be down
where he is" said Callahan. mo
team in the American league has
played any better ball against my
club. Every pitcher I have ever
started against New York had to
hustle every second We have a
commanding lead in the series with
the New Yorks, but 1 must confess
we outlucked them in many of the
games
Il truly believe that from now un-
I'll the close of the season New York
will win the majority of its games
Birdie Cree is hitter. He will bal
in the select class against any oppo.
sition. You cannot overestimate the
value of one such man He will
carry along his associates and make
them do better than their natural
capabilities. II a hitter Of Crees
ability had been with Chance all sea
son, his club would now have beer
up around the top. No team in tn,
American league plays any smarter
baseball. No team gets greater valu,
out of its hits The trouble all alonG
has been an absolute lack Of often
| give strength "