Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15

hand. is the text of the following
| letter:
j. P. N:
| am very sorry that you said that
the Boston Nationals have no chance
in the world to win the champion
ship and that Philadelphia has a
cinch to win. which you had in the
top of your column before the games
started The true saying, j. z. N, Is
that you cannot win at all times
and as Connie Mack is one of the
best sports, he says the best team
Won No ifs and ands with him,
when he lost. Yours truly.
DANIEL McGROGAN.
You are mistaken, Dan. What
did say was that the series was
about as even thing as possible
and that the Athletics should be the
favorites at 6 TO 5. simply because
they were the champions. In my
story yesterday I called attention
twice to the fact that I had picked
the Athletics, but / am delighted
just the same that the Bostons won.
No ifs or iands about that.
G
Here is a letter, calling the turn,
that Smoke Miller wrote just before
the teams went to Boston:
New York, Oct II. IA.
J. P. NJ:
Well, Joe, 1 guess you noticed we
are still cracking-in fact. if we crack
any more Wen be in the class of that
other big Lacquer, j. Caezar, the guy
that did all the kicking because there
was nothing else for him to crack.
told you so, Joe; l guess it's not
necessary for me to remind you that
I'm the only guy around here that
picked Boston to win; SO like me old
pal, All Reeves, ] want you to give
me credit for while never boost me-
self as a ball player l will admit
that as a scribe using the capital ],
Sam Crane amt got nothing on me.
guess you noticed, also, that
didn't pich the first game, but it's not
my fault Joe, | felt fine Friday
morning, and I got over to the
grounds on Lehigh avenue away
ahead of time, but after | stood round
watching the Athletics knock the ball
around awhile ] got an awful bad feel
ing in the stumick and Stallings had
to send Rudolph in. Then 1 began to
feel better right away and when I
saw how easy those terrible sluggers
were for little guy like Rudolph l
was sorry didn't go in, anyhow, but
as long as Dick was doing all right,
of course, Stallings wouldn't take him
out. I was soar When Stallings sent
James in instead of me, but / see he
was right now, Joe, for he saw that
he had caught the champs in a bat
ting slump and you see he wants to
save me in case they find their bat
ting eyes. Well, if Rudolph and
James can hold them to nine hits in
eighteen innings [ guess you know
what they'll get off me, don't you,
Joe.
Between you and me confidently,
Joe, Stallings took an awful chance
sending James in, for while I'm not
gone back on me pals. Joe, Boston
looked best on Saturday only be-
cause they won. They had all the
breaks, but they are entitled to the
brakes if they get them. but they are
not entitled to the decisions, joe, and
/ believe if there had been a good
decision on Gosh" Schang on third
that time, Joe, Stallings would have
been sorry he used James instead of
me. for outside of their poor batting
the Athletics, especially Barry, played
the fans to a man would have said
that the champs came back Most
the fans wondered why Jack Barry
hesitated to throw the ball to Baker
to make the play on Deal in the ninth.
Everyone in the park expected Deal
to be thrown out by q mile or so. but
Barry couldn't have thrown any
quicker without hitting Deal with the
ball 1t is my own private oppinion
that the play for which Deal is get
ting so much praise was a. lucky bone
and you know, Joe, I wouldn't say
that about me own team mate to any
one else but you.
I feel sorry for me old pal, Eddie
Plank, more so than for any other
man ON Mack's team. Eds in my
class, Joe. They never picked him
for a soft spot in a world series yet.
but 1 guess he's like me, he never
wanted one. At any rate he never
piched anything but a cracker jack
world series game and he never lost
one that he didn't deserve to win.
Well, Joe, the champs must change
their style or find their batting eyes
mighty soon or they'll loose four