Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-10
BOSTON MASCOT
MAY Win The
Series
NEARslGHTED YOUTH is SAID TO
BE HooDoo KILLER, ALL
RIGHT

Philadelphia, Oct 10.-As some
thing like 80 per cent of the worlds
greatest baseball experts have opin-
ed that the Braves are up against
it in their present struggle with the
Athletics, it would seem that the
only thing left for the stallings' crew
is to pin their faith to the mascoting
powers of. Willie Connor, their iink-
lliller-in-chief, and bunch of Asters,
the Braves fayorite. flower
iftheir trio of star slabsters, James,
Rudolph and Tyler, are not able to
foo the hard-walloping Mackmen,
and if these same Mackmen can show
"Hankerino' Gowdy that he couldn't
nip John Bunny stealing second, if
the Athletics 100000 infieId should
make the Braves quartette Of infield-
ers look like they were tied, if Joey
Connolly should be doomed to hit
about 1856 against Messrs. Bender and
Plank, if Moran, Mann, WhitteG, Ca
tber and Devore should prove of no
| Ihelp to the Braves in their efforts to
down the worlds champs, and if-But
what's the use? Expert opinion has
the Braves outclassed from turnstile
to flagpole. s4tAaosa4
But the. critics overlooked Mascot
Willie and the Asters True, the
Mackmen have a fair sort Of mascot
themselves-the same one who held
the jody in check while his team
breezed through on the winning end
of three previous worlds series. But
Willie Connor and the Asters are
something brand new in the mascot
ing line. Willie, who is known as the
original Willie Boston Beans. wears
spectacles. Yes, sir, wears 'em right
out on the field ana gives everybody
a chance to lamp at them.
Only one glance is needed to show
that Willie is high-brow mascot. He
is the typical youth that the cartoon
lists have pictured for years whenever
they wanted to do a little kidding at
the expense Of the Hub
On all ordinary occasions Willie
looks the part Of the studious young
| Rcstonian. But when he is fighting
hoodoos on the field Of battle he be
comes as full Of pep as Hughey Jen
nings His antics near the Bostor
dug-out have pulled many a game out
OF the fire for the Braves this season
a. least in the minds of the players
who have implicit confidence in the
criss-crossing powers of their mascot
Rut if Willie's powers should prove
inTotent, the Braves will still have
With them their Asters. Dispel youl
thoughts of doubt, julia for it's true
absolutely true Those hard-lookirs
wops out on the field are passionate
ly fond of Asters Other big Lacquer,
have carried with them all sorts a
animal mascots, from birds and cat,
to elephants and alligators, but 1t re
msined for the Boston bunch to breal
into the greenhouse and cop a flower
The Aster mascot was adopted eyi
IDENTIFY with a view to impressing upol
the minds of the ordinary rough4necl
ball tossers outside the Hub the fac
that the Rraves stood for cultur
eleht ways from the deck.
The Asters not only put the anima
rlascots out of business, but they di
their share towards winning the Ns
ticnal league pennant for the Brave:
At any rate the Braves have hunc
that the blossoms helped the goo
work along, and all Of them are k4e
for the posey President Gafene
wears an Aster II the buttonhoIe !
his coat every dav AMI carries anothe
5nA III his puc6 - 1t is said Ri
arcs Tiaces an Aster in Ills she
aefore going on tie pitchiYs moan.
that big" Schmidt eats a few Of th
blossoms between innings ns
However that may be, there's on
thing is certain in regards to til
iBEesent werld's-series, And that i
that the Athletics may outclass th
Praves in hitting, pitching, base-stea
inr, run-getting, inside stuff and a
that sort Of thing, but in order to wi
] their fourth worlds pennant the Mac
| men will have to break the spectacle
] Of willie Boston Beans" and also co
/ ner the Aster market.
! POSITIVELY MASTERS GROUP