Evening journal., 1914-10-16

American baseball team which Grantland
Rice prepares for Golfers Weekly. 1t
is an imposing squad. Following is what
Rice has to say regarding his selection.
We reproduce his article in part:
CATCHERS.
In selecting our catchcrs, We laid out
the following array to pick from.
Schaag of the Athletics, Archer and
Bresnahan OF the Cubs. Wngo and
Brcsnahan of the Cardinals, Schalk OF
the White Sox
of all these the most brilliant catcher
is Jimmy Archer Of the Cubs But
Archer was injured and out OF the game
a big part of the season and OF less
value to his club than Roger Bresnahan
who had a fine year in all departments.
Schalk of the White Sox had good
year. But for all around work Wally
Schang of the Athletics leads the field.
Schang caught great ball in over 100
games. He profted by his past exper-
fence and was better man IN 1914
than the year before He batted above
.27j and added Thickness to his rugged
blows. lie had the wallop and the arm
and good, steady Judgment behind the
plate. He was on the Job from start
10 iinish-and ON the Job with excellence
in every department Wen take Schang
and let the knocks fall where they may.
THE OUTFIELD.
No one has yet come forward TO
drive Ty Cobb and Iris Speaker
from any all-star outfeld of the
game Cobb was out of harness for
part of the season, but he worked in
over 80 games, and while i'm action
showed again that there was only
one Ty. On the 3lst of August Cobb
was fourth in batting. with an aver
age Of .344. Collins had $50. Jackson
1852 and HOblitzel .353 Il seemed for
brief bit that the Georgia Ghost
after leading his league seven years
at bat, was 10 be hauled down at last
But on the 18th of September, two
weeks later. Cobb was batting $50,
30 points beyond his closest rival.
Speaker had another Speaker year.
The Red Sox star batted over $3.50,
fielded with all his usual brilliancy
and did fine work around the bases.
Joe Jackson, holder of the all-star
outfeld job with Cobb and Speaker,
was not so fortunate. In our opin-
ion George Burns. Of the Giants. did
better work than the Cleveland slug
ger. Jackson outbatted Burns, but
there all comparison in favor of the
Carolina Krupp gun ends Jackson
stole only 25 bases. Burns led the
National League with over so steals
THE PITCHERS
Here. as Mr.. Hamlet said before
our day. is the rub.
From the National League we had
Alexander. Tesreau. Mathewson,
James. Rudolph. Tyler, Doak. Sallec,
Vaughn. From the American League
We drew Bender. Plank, Leonard.
Caldwell. Johnson and Mitchell
among others. Then arose the prob
lem-how can anyone pick an all
star cast and leave off Christy
Mathewson. the Miracle Man. and
/ Walter Johnson, the Siege Gun? How
can you pick Matty and Johnson
when others pitched better ball
/ throughout the year?
The first man we picked was
Grover Cleveland Alexander Work.
/ ing for a bad ball club-for one that
played poorly most Of the year and
stuck i'm the second division-Alex-
ander won more games than any
other pitcher i'm his league. He pitch
ed consistently all the way, without
any streak of poor work at any stage.
Next to Alexander we picked Bill
James. of the Boston Braves pow
erful youngster, who last season was
lust starting. James. Rudolph and
| Tyler held the Braves up i'm tho fight,
but the greatest of these was James.
He worked in nearly so games; and
when Boston was fighting hardest TO
overtake the Giants and later TO pro-
tect her lead. II was James upon
whom Stallings depended more than
any other man.
I Next to James we selected JEFF Tes-
reau. the mastodonic Giant, who held
his course to the end without falter-
ing-even when the rest of his mates
were in wild rout, beaten and broken
and out of the field.
And to these three we added Chief
Bender, who did the best pitching in
the American League. Until the Ath-
letics had the flag won Bender had
won II games and lost but three. He
had a stretch of 10 consecutive victor
les. And when he was beaten in his
fourteenth attempt it was by a score
of to l. where he held the enemy to
three hits.
THE INFIELD.
Selecting an all-star infield is about
as difficult as robbing the blind Nc
lnnis, Safer. Jack Miller and Jake
t,.oro tl,o fo,ls.... fs..-s